HELP! I need a m7 x .8 Tap! Any Harley Guys?

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38flattie

April 03, 2013, 01:44:19 PM Last Edit: April 03, 2013, 02:18:55 PM by 38flattie

Don is working like crazy to get the lifters done. We are using early Harley adjustors, and just found out the take a m7 x .8 Tap!

If anyone has one they are willing to sell, or knows where I can get one ASAP, it would be much appreciated!
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925

You can't make a race horse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig. - Bob Akin

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Dean Los Angeles

#1
April 03, 2013, 02:42:17 PM
Bolts and Industrial Supplies in Australia has a Sutton tap
https://www.bolt.com.au/m7-08-intermediate-high-speed-steel-tap-p-100724.html

Sutton tools doesn't list it. So . . .
Well, it used to be Los Angeles . . . 50 miles north of Fresno now.
Just remember . . . It isn't life or death.
It's bigger than life or death! It's RACING.

saltwheels262

#2
April 03, 2013, 03:54:43 PM
Wow! new fenders and tires.

buddy,
looked through my hog taps and dies - nothing.
do you know what it was used for ?

called my machinist~~
      he found it online at-
   production tool on Brookpark Road in Cleveland
         and at-
    Msc Industrial ( Industries ? ) in Detroit

out of the yellow pages- production tool supply of Ohio -216-265-0000

I hope this helps you out.
would still like to know what that thread is used in on a Harley.
and still like that all thread up front.

bill franey
bub '07 - 140.293 a/pg   120" crate street mill  
bub '10 - 158.100  sweetooth gear
lta  7/11 -163.389  7/17/11; 3 run avg.-162.450
ohio -    - 185.076 w/#684      
lta 8/14  - 169.xxx. w/sw2           
'16 -- 0 runs ; 0 events

" it's not as easy as it looks. "
                            - franey  8/2007

Crackerman

#3
April 03, 2013, 05:04:34 PM
Local mac, matco or snapon dealer have it? Maybe as part of a large tap and die set. Any bolt and tool places near you?
Grainger?
I will look in my mac tap set when I get home and see if I can get you a part number.

Peter Jack

#4
April 03, 2013, 07:25:51 PM Last Edit: April 03, 2013, 07:29:00 PM by Peter Jack
KBC Tools has a really good stock of really odd taps and dies. They're probably your best bet. When you order the tap get them to send you a catalog too. It's phone book sized. They have lots of stuff you never knew existed.

Are you sure that they're actually metric? Harley had a lot of their own bolts with odd threads in the earlier models.

Pete

tauruck

#5
April 03, 2013, 10:38:39 PM
I have one here but it will probably take a week to reach you. Do you need the bolts that match?. Let me know. Mike.

Stainless1

#6
April 04, 2013, 06:02:00 AM
Buddy... old Harley and M anything does not really compute.... Have you checked with the local or non local Harley Shop to confirm?  Sure it isn't a wallowed 1/4 20.
Harley guys on the site... chime in here and help a Buddy out  :-D
See you soon  :cheers:
Stainless
Red Hat 228.039, 2001, 65ci, Bockscar Lakester #1000 with a little N2O

pops29

#7
April 04, 2013, 07:08:54 AM
  It is a 9/32 - 32   dam close to .8 pitch --  I did the cardinal sin " assumed " metric after I put the calipers to it. I re-checked it this morning with the mic. and a 32 pitch gauge.     Thanks for the input guys !!!!!!!!

Peter Jack

#8
April 04, 2013, 07:23:28 AM
Part number 1-372-135 at KBC Tools. Good luck.

Pete

38flattie

#9
April 04, 2013, 04:58:00 PM
Quote from: Stainless1 on April 04, 2013, 06:02:00 AM
Buddy... old Harley and M anything does not really compute....

The lifter adjustors I have were from 45's and K models. The same basic adjustor, or at least the thread, was used 1915-1984= Singles, Knucks, Pans, Shovels, O.H.V. 45's, Sportster and K models........"
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925

You can't make a race horse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig. - Bob Akin

http://www.flatcadracing.org/
http://youtu.be/89rVb497_4c

WOODY@DDLLC

#10
April 05, 2013, 02:46:54 PM
All models are wrong, but some are useful! G.E. Box (1967) www.designdreams.biz

Rex Schimmer

#11
April 05, 2013, 03:28:41 PM
No possible way that any good Amurican bike, especially a Harlem F-ing Davidson, would have any of that commie metric thread stuff on it!! I believe 9/32-32 but 7mmx.8, nfw!!

Rex
Rex

Not much matters and the rest doesn't matter at all.

fwillyj

#12
April 05, 2013, 04:26:27 PM
-this link is to MSC's page 287---they have the 9/32-32 in stock in both plug and bottoming for about $29.

http://metalworking.mscdirect.com/CGI/NNSRITW?PMAKA=04840906

fastman614

#13
April 24, 2013, 02:47:15 AM
Quote from: Rex Schimmer on April 05, 2013, 03:28:41 PM
No possible way that any good Amurican bike, especially a Harlem F-ing Davidson, would have any of that commie metric thread stuff on it!! I believe 9/32-32 but 7mmx.8, nfw!!

Rex

Unfortunately, Harley has gone a bit "Commie" as you say.... the newer bikes have A LOT of metric stuff - starting with things like 39mm or 41mm diameter fork tubes .... think of all of the other ramifications from JUST THAT ONE!

Also, quite a lot of smaller items have beeb "discovered" as being metric.....
No s*** sticks to the man wearing a teflon suit.

RansomT

#14
April 24, 2013, 03:42:03 AM
Quote from: fastman614 on April 24, 2013, 02:47:15 AM
Quote from: Rex Schimmer on April 05, 2013, 03:28:41 PM
No possible way that any good Amurican bike, especially a Harlem F-ing Davidson, would have any of that commie metric thread stuff on it!! I believe 9/32-32 but 7mmx.8, nfw!!

Rex

Unfortunately, Harley has gone a bit "Commie" as you say.... the newer bikes have A LOT of metric stuff - starting with things like 39mm or 41mm diameter fork tubes .... think of all of the other ramifications from JUST THAT ONE!

Also, quite a lot of smaller items have beeb "discovered" as being metric.....


That's cause a "lot" of their parts are being outsourced to companies in China.  A few years back a company in Australia that made several HD parts had a labor dispute and lost HD business, those parts plus a lot of others started being machined in China.
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