Got a new steering stabilizer for the xj and had a chance to put it in this afternoon and was going to baptize my new tools! (my tool chest with over 40yrs of tools grew legs and walked off during Christmas) and too my amazement none of the sockets/wrenches fit. The nuts/bolt weren't 11/16" or 3/4" or 17mm or 19mm. What gives with this? Did this jeep arrive at Roswell or what? Anybody????

 

If memory serves me right its an 18mm.

 

All American made vehicles are metric. They have to be in order to sell vehicles over seas.

 

It's interesting. I have two 1961 Sunbeam Alpine British sports cars. Every thing on the car is SAE except the Ford Engine I put in. That is all Metric. What's up with that.

RSWiser

 

SAE size were originally called English. Sometime in the last couple of decades, probably when they joined the EU, the UK went metric.