craaaazzy

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hi guys,
previous owner removed the wiper arms from the car so am wanting to re-install them but am missing the nuts that hold them in place. can someone tell me the size/thread pitch of the nuts so i can go to the hardware store please? thanks.

ray green

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There was a guy at the OGTA meeting Tuesday night with a whole pocket full of those nuts Fred. He's going to be at DGRR too, if you're headed up that way.

Anyway, the nut is a metric 14mm nut with course threads fitting an 8 mm thread. But they don't sell those at hardware stores.

MIKE-P-28

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Try www.boltdepot.com

craaaazzy

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Thanks ray. So u don't believe ace or true value would have them? Yes, I'll be going to DGRR this year...trying to have the car ready by then.

MIKE-P-28

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Looks like something you might find in the electrical section. Don't they use thin nuts like that on electrical conduit pipes like in a breaker box? I'm sure I've seen something like that there.

craaaazzy

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Oh, it's a thin bolt? That may be harder to find then.

ray green

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Here's a couple photos, the nut is a couple mm smaller than a dime. If you can't find something let us know, we'll make sure there's some at DGRR

rwatson5651

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This may be a source:

http://www.mcmaster.com/#90695a120/=re3gca

rwatson5651

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I will go out and check mine to verify the thread pitch, but I think its the 2.0 shown in the example.

rwatson5651

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Well I'm glad I checked cause I was wrong, the size is 8mm x 1.25 thread pitch.
Thats actually a common size so Im thinking the hardware store will prob have it. If not here is the proper example, (rather than the screwed up one I gave before) :

McMaster-Carr

MIKE-P-28

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I thought he was talking about the ones under the plastic pieces. Hell 8 x 1.25mm is available just about anywhere. You probably have some from a trip to the junkyard and not even know it

craaaazzy

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Thanks guys. I went through my jar of miscellaneous nuts and bolts and found 2 cap nuts that fit so I'm good.

MIKE-P-28

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Told ya. Lol