I have owned a few vintage Volvos (pre-early '70s) and they had mostly
UNC threads with standard (to Americans) inch bolt heads. These Volvos
used Girling brakes in many cases and SU carbs. Where they used ATE
brakes and Bosch electrical components, they were metric. Bodies,
engines, gearboxes, rear axles, etc. were all UNC. Many of the rear
axles were by Dana, with similar ones used in Studebakers and Sunbeams.
The earliest 1800s, of course, were built in the UK.
Charlie
On 11/7/2011 1:38 PM, Oudesluys wrote:
> Lotus is one of the exceptions as they used metric in their own
> engines from the 907 engine. Do not know if they used metric in the
> bodies.
> Of course a Continental Europe (Renault France) produced engine had
> metric threads. Even long before the war there were very few
> exceptions to that.
> Saab used a Triumph engine so I presume that the threads on those
> engines are not metric, however if these were produced in licence by
> Saab they might. Also Volvo may have used some UNF threads I believe.
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
>
>
> Op 7-11-2011 19:00, Alan Grossman schreef:
>> Renault powered Lotus Europa? Just askin'
>>
>> Cheers, Alan
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Nock"
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>> To: "Richard Kahn" <tahoehealey@hotmail.com>
>> Cc: <healeys@autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 8:10 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Master cylinder-Metric?
>>
>>
>>> NO British cars used Metrics until the Jaguars in the mid 80s.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David Nock
>>> British Car Specialists
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>>> www.britishcarspecialists.com
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>>> .
>>>
>>> On Nov 5, 2011, at 8:06 AM, Richard Kahn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are the fittings for the brake and clutch master cylinder metric? I
>>>> bought a
>>>> bench bleeding kit from Napa that does not fit. They figured that a
>>>> British
>>>> car would have metric. One more delay with another trip to the
>>>> store. I'll
>>>> have to bring the old unit in for sizing.
>>>> Rich Kahn
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