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Rear brake banjo bolt/61 Bugeye

61frogeye

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I believe this bolt head is Whitworth, does anyone know the size of wrench that fits it properly. It is a thin head and made of brass so it is easy to ruin.
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David_Doan

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I rebuilt my brakes recently, I'm pretty sure I used a metric wrench on that one. I know nothing on these cars should be metric, but metric wrenches often fill the gaps between SAE sizes if you don't have whitworth wrenches.

Here is a conversion chart I found somewhere on the internet.

wrench_conversion.jpg


Right click and select "Save Target As..." to save this chart as a file.
 
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61frogeye

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That chart is a keeper! I found that the banjo bolt head is larger than 9/16 and smaller than 5/8 so I will try a borrowed 15mm box end.
 
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