Cuppa
11th January 2013, 10:32 AM
Towards the rear of each of the chassis rails on my '06 Patrol is a threaded hole on the outer side. I don't know what the purpose of these holes is, they are not utilised on my DX cab chassis. However on one side it is perfect for bolting a support bracket to for the gas bottle carrier I just had welded up.
Went to the local fastener joint who are generally very good, to get a suitable bolt. Looked like it would be an M12 fine thread, but M12 was too small, pushing straight through the hole. M14 was too big. Lots of head scratching amongst the bolt blokes who agreed with me that you would expect any thread on a late model Nissan to be metric, but they assured me that there were no other metric options between 12mm & 14mm.
In desperation they gave me a couple of half inch bolts to try, each with a different fine thread (not sure which), but weren't optimistic. When the finer of the two screwed right in you could've knocked us all down with a feather.
Anyone know of anywhere else on the Patrol that non metric threads can be found?
Below is the threaded hole in the chassis I have referred to.
Went to the local fastener joint who are generally very good, to get a suitable bolt. Looked like it would be an M12 fine thread, but M12 was too small, pushing straight through the hole. M14 was too big. Lots of head scratching amongst the bolt blokes who agreed with me that you would expect any thread on a late model Nissan to be metric, but they assured me that there were no other metric options between 12mm & 14mm.
In desperation they gave me a couple of half inch bolts to try, each with a different fine thread (not sure which), but weren't optimistic. When the finer of the two screwed right in you could've knocked us all down with a feather.
Anyone know of anywhere else on the Patrol that non metric threads can be found?
Below is the threaded hole in the chassis I have referred to.