Wyoming B.S. Thread

Just a neighbor north in the Billings area saying hi.

 

BTW ... is there a WY specific Sell/Buy/Trade thread I can follow? There is one for the MT group, just checking for stuff up for grabs as I do my build.

 

No there isn't. Not enough members honestly. In fact most people that hang here aren't in Wy at all or don't live there any more ha.

I used to live in Northwest Wy just south of Billings. Live just west of Billings now in MT.

Yeah I found that as well. Rather funny.

 

Got a favorite place to eat in Billings? Wife and I are here for another few hours waiting for our flight home. (For like pub type food....nothing fancy)

We will be south of you though when we do move here by three hours.

 

Walkers is nice, bit on the fancy side but cool.

Stacked is good

Montana Brew company across the street is standard bar food but not bad.

 

We are actually at Montana brew right now.

Probably give Stacked a try for dinner

 

Guadalajara is a good mexican place.

If you like Asian food there are a lot of good places there for that.

Bullman's Pizza is my go to for piazza there.

There's a Cajun place I really want to try too near you that has really good reviews.

Also the Field House is a nice place with good stuff.

And the Ice cream joint across the street from you is great too.

 

FWIW, I was able to find equivalent size grade 10.9 bolts at Ace and have been running them for the last several years.

 

No. It's 21 or 22.

My local Ace seems have a better selection of JIS sizes these days from what I've seen, so you may be able to find one with a 19mm head if that's what you want.

 

Yup, lots of TW 'experts' in that thread. I wonder how the OP fared.

The ironic thing for me is that that guys incident, coupled with some things that squeaky Brett was experiencing did motivate me to inspect the coil buckets. And here we are 3 years later...

An OEM bolt and nut are going to cost you $25-30 for a set and you have to order it. A quick run to ACE will cost you $5-6.This is what I an running now.

I don't get the part about the bolt head and nut diameters not being 19mm. Why is that important?

 

I got OEM from McGeorge (which is the better Camelback these days). Tacked it on to a larger order though, so shipping wasn't the issue it'll be for just ordering the bolts.

This is so true - my ACE is great; I've been so amazed at the things they have and the nice pricing. @m3bassman - definitely check out ACE first. (And, I understand your desire to keep at 19mm, but @Digiratus has a point to - at least, if what you find there uses a socket size you already carry. This may be the route I go if I check these bolts next time and they are worn again - then I want something "better" and ACE might be that.)

 

Which is harder?

Also anyone had this happen before, I keep trying to put parts on my truck and more falls off.



Ouch, this trigger wheel has a West Virginian smile.


And this goddamn O2 sensor required me to drill forever!



Had a happy ending though after some creativity




One day I'll put it back together

 

I think you live near a Tacoma Screw, they're like Fastenal except they dont suck and actually have stuff in stock

 

My ace sucks. Never have metric stuff

 

If there is time to wait for shipment - belmetric.com

 

They have a kick-ass selection for oddball metric stuff, but man are they priced crazy high on their website and almost none of their Amazon stock is prime

 

https://youtu.be/aeqYIt1x7Jw

Was kind of wondering when this was going to happen

 

I got a fake denso air/fuel sensor on flebay a few years ago caused me all sorts of issues until it was replaced.

Now I kinda want to look over my oil filters from Amazon.

 

Its been happening for years with counterfeit stuff. Inspection stuff (micrometers, scales, ect) have been an issue for years on Amazon