I hope you have better luck with your set than I had with mine; I have one of those suit-case sized sets with both SAE and metric taps dies handles and all, hundreds of big little and tiny pieces; I opened it up on the bench, turned away, and some part of that stiff plastic case caught on my clothes, dragging the entire mess off and scattering across the shop floor; it took hours to get it all back in the proper slots.




I am in no immediate hurry, just getting my ducks all in a row for when I do start this project.

I really appreciate you taking the time to check this for me.

That is part of what is so good about this bunch of guys, being willing to go the extra mile for strangers that you might never see.


Thanks.

 

All my stuff is old probably 30 years old and it came in a nice wooden box/chest but after adding to the collection over the years I had an old retired cabinet maker built me a bigger/better box. I sure like it because of the setup he built has storage for more junk/thread pitch gauge, reamers, extra taps n dies, ect. probably 30 lbs. of stuff. anyways i'll see if I can getter done for ya.

 

Found it. Want me to mail it? Or you passing through anytime soon?

 

PM is on the way.

 

BearKiller as wannadiesel said it ain't american thread. And it's not any pitch I have on my metric stuff. My metric stuff I think is only the equivalent of our fine and course threads, it may be some kinda metric pipe thread which I guess I don't have. I really never thought about a metric pipe I guess. But snap-on, mac, or matco will be thru one day next week and i'll see what I can come up with not even sure they have it but should be able to get something to check it with. At the parts stores I got alot of the deer in headlight looks when I ask if they could tell me the thread pitch. I'm sure worried but I shouldn't be about this group of yo-yo's we have in the work force now. My forefathers probably was thinking the same thing of me when I was young.

 

Unless you need it for yourself, don't go buying high-priced gauges just on my account.

I am all the time running into stuff with some weird thread-pitch/size that nothing ever seems to fit.


I really appreciate you going to all this trouble.



Thanks.

 

It's no problem. I try to buy a few tools monthly moreso the odd stuff that I don't have. It's your fault "lol" you have me wondering what size it is. I'm going to do the same thing on my hotrod with the pull cable kill switch plus rig a pull cable air shutdown. Anyways when I get the tool i'll let ya know what it is.

 

That's why I ended up plugging mine after it started leaking. I looked high and low including a specialty fastener place that up until then had never let me down looking for an odd-threaded piece of something.

 

This got me to thinking,

the Bosch VE pump, with the same basic housing, is used on numerous applications, many of which do not use the electric fuel-solenoid.

I wonder what Bosch plugs that hole with.

With a proper part-number, I bet the pump-shop could come up with something.


I guess I will need to scrounge a couple more dead solenoids.

When I get done, the only truck that will still be key-operated is the wife's; so, the plan is to put all of the good working solenoids in it's glove-box, for whenever one should fail, a spare would be ready.

 

If ya change them over you won't need them. Put the pull cable underneath the dash and when you kill it leave it pulled out, no one can steal it or start it with it pulled out.

 

BK, I've read threads on here before that the old Volkswagen diesels used a shutdown solenoid that is the same as the one on the VE pumps. Also, someone had a link to a place that sold an aftermarket VW solenoid really cheap. I was just thinking that it may be easier for you to simply buy a couple of these cheap aftermarket VW solenoids, then either use it as a replacement solenoid or simply as a plug.
Not sure who had the link, a search might turn it up, or someone else reading this might remember it.

 

That solution is just too simple for a complex mind like mine to comprehend.

 

And it can't start itself, either.


I know a guy that was always fussing on one of his workhands for not pushing back in the kill-cable after he shut it off; then, one day, it was sitting behind the barn with the cable pushed in, just like the boss wanted it; someone got a little too close and nudged it with a roll of hay; it took off and went into the barn wall.

 

Wouldn't you have to remove the shut off arm return spring on our pumps in order for the pull cable to remain in the shut off position?

 

Or use a locking cable.

The outside of the Tee-Handle is sectioned in quarters, with two opposing quarters threaded and the other two not.

The female housing that it slides in is likewise threaded in quarters plus "stops" to prevent the Tee-Handle from simply going round and round.

You pull the cable out as far as you want, then give it a quarter-turn to engage the threads and it stays there until you release it.