| Author | Message | ||
     Titusand |
This is the content of the Buell tool kit: I found it on Google, and it's from an old post on the BWB site: 7/16 x 1/2 double open end 9/16 combo 5/8 x 3/4 double open end 13/16 x 7/8 double open end 10mm combo 12mm combo 13mm combo 14mm combo 19mm combo 1/8 hex 5/32 hex 3/16 hex 7/32 hex 1/4 hex 5/16 hex 3/8 hex 4mm hex 5mm hex #25 torx #27 torx #30 torx #40 torx (Message edited by gearheaderiko on February 28, 2011) | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
Thanks! Hmm, looks like an even mix of metric and standard! | ||
| Titusand |
Now here's an interesting thing, on Ebay, a simpler kit, labeled for the Blast only, there is even some official looking part # shown. Could there really be two Buell kits? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/934-Buell-Mechanic- Tool-Kit-Buell-Blast-94685-00Y-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ hashZitem336085dbc5QQitemZ220662717381QQptZMotorcy clesQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories#ht_500wt_1182 | ||
| Titusand |
I can't imagine the Blast needing such a large variety of hex keys. | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
I'd venture a guess that there's more than two. | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
My other guess is thats the difference between the two. Less tools! | ||
| Titusand |
I sent the seller a question, asking the sizes of the wrenches. That would be useful to know, at least for newbies like me to the Blast, and motorcycling in general. I can tell you exactly how many miles I have ridden a motorcycle by looking at the odometer on my Blast and subtracting 162. --2nd RIDING SEASON APPROACHING! -- | ||
| Garlic_sauce |
I have a Blast tool kit. That's funny you should mention the Metric/Standard ratio Erik, cause when I first opened and looked at it we both said "I thought these were AMERICAN MOTORCYCLES" Lol, not so much. | ||
| Titusand |
@Garlic Sauce, so you have the small Blast kit? Would you please give the sizes of the wrenches there? Thanks. | ||
| Garlic_sauce |
I'm sorry bro but that set is all mixed up with my dads tools at my folks house, wish I could help. | ||
| Garlic_sauce |
Actually looking at the list posted above I think that's the same kit I have, I got it for X-mas when I first got my BLAST. | ||
| Milt |
Titusand, That's the kit that came with my Blast. I'll ask the original owner if it came with the bike or if he bought it from a third party. | ||
| Crackhead |
A lot of American manufactures are switching over to Metric. I prefer metric and find standard an annoying hold over. Also the rest of the world uses metric, so when you are at an international conference meeting it makes the conversation easier when you don't have to convert in your head. If I could convert the entire bike over to metric, I would. I have a few very expensive highly accurate tq wrenches from my previous job and they only have Nm scales. It sucks multiplying by .737 to convert to Ft-Lb and then converting to in-lb. Lets just say, my repair book has the conversions written in pen. | ||
| Garlic_sauce |
Ya, I prefer metric. Good thing since my bike and car are both Japanese, although I don't know ANYONE who prefers standard. Not even the guys who if you wanted to take their American car/bike, you'd have to pry it from their cold dead hands... | ||
| Titusand |
I don't want this to turn into a fight here, but I prefer English measurements to Metric. The standard systems of measurement are quite old and they are quite well thought out. They don't teach these things in school. If you don't know why there are 5280 feet in a mile or why freezing is at 32 and boiling at 212, there are highly specific, and very interesting, reasons for them, and the others, to be as they are. | ||
| Garlic_sauce |
Honestly I just like Metric better because it's easier for me to find what I'm looking for, my car and bike are metric. It's just MY opinion/preference. | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
"Good thing since my bike and car are both Japanese" Spoken like a proud American  Standard or metric? Who friggin cares?! I can honestly say I've never given any thought to even the idea of which is better. Just go to the toolbox and grab the right wrench!!! Now fine or coarse thread, that I have a preference on. | ||
| Crackhead |
Depending on the Japanese car, it might have more American labor then most American cars. My wife's Subaru is assembled in TN. The Honda Goldwing is/ was assembled in TN. | ||
| Desertfox |
I prefer metric because that's pretty much all I remember how to use now. When you enter college to become a Biologist, english measurements fall out of use. I like metric because everything is based in tens. Also, conversion from cubic centimeters to milliliters is 1 to 1. It basically brings all the measurements together and unifies their use. Due to the need for both metric and english wrenches, however, we end up getting kits with duplicate sizes essentially. Very useful to have a 14mm AND a 9/16 on hand when you need to hold both ends of a nut/bolt. Oh, plus the only car I ever owned was made in germany in 1969... I may be a little biased...  | ||
| Milt |
How many bikes use any English hardware at all? What I don't like is having both on the same bike - twice the wrenches, twice the opportunity to choose the wrong one. | ||
| Britchri10 |
English hardware = Whitworth. Standard is all over the place these days. Metric is easier to follow. I find the best thing to do is buy every type & size of tool you can You can never be over-prepared! | ||
| Packnrat |
metric can go float in the sea. i need to dig just try and find one that fits. give me normal American fractions wrenches any time. far easier to just pick up the correct wrench needed. but yes no need to have both on the same bike/car/truck/jeep/etc. stick to just one standard and keep it there. at one time America was going to dum down and convert to euperian metric system but the cost of just changing the freeway signs would have made even today nat debt look cheep. |
