Hey all,

So I got recently did a rebuild on a 242 T case. The Heep is driving around fine albeit a new leak in the front differential. Anyways, I was cleaning out my garage today and found this pile of 6 bolts that may be from my ‘87 XJ. NORMALLY, I’m good about keeping track of my nuts and bolts with a tackle box but I can’t for the life of me think of what these came from. I can take them to a hardware store to see what thread pitch they are but a 10mm socket fits on the heads so they’re probably 8x1.25 if I had to guess. I remember using my 10mm socket a fair amount when I was taking the T case out but didn’t see anything that was obviously missing when I checked it over again tonight. Just by looking, does anyone have any idea where these bolts belong? There’s a chance that they are ones I cleaned out from the inside of the Jeep when I bought it so they may have nothing to do with the T case rebuild.

 

Cross member bolts I’d say. I could be wrong though

 

Nah, they’re way too small unless there’s another set somewhere that I’m forgetting about. Amazon has a bolt that looks to be the same from Omix (linked). The description says rear bumper, shock mount, and spring tr.

 

Yeah you are right. Just checked my crossmember bolts are a 15MM on my 2000 XJ.

 

Valve cover bolts maybe? Or oil/tranny pan bolts?

 

M6x1.0. Those things are used all over the damn place on a Jeep.

 

If you're still researching them you might want to do that. Looking at the parts lists, 87 was using SAE.

 

I'm doing a restoration on my '87 right now and I can tell you first hand that there is A LOT of metric hardware in these vehicles.

 

Yes, but most engine hardware is SAE and body stuff is metric.

 

I vote for the flywheel cover.