Buy a thread pitch gauge to be sure what you have before you mess up the
threads and have to buy a tap or worse!
Joe Garcia
Yuba City, CA
1950 Chevrolet 3100
-----Original Message-----
From: Pastorjon994@cs.com <Pastorjon994@cs.com>
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, August 04, 2000 12:24 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] Pumpkin Nuts
>Trying to fix a leak in the rear end. Found a broken nut. I replaced it
>with what I thought was a fine thread 3/8-24. Got one at true value,
doesn't
>want to go on. Any ideas? The old nut almost looks like a castle nut but
>not quite, very thin slots.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jon Callahan
>'50 3100
>Champaign/Urbana, Illinois
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
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