[AT] New product panics (was) Detroits

[Steve W.]

I have a couple vehicles here with heads that have the valve seats peat 
out of them due to unleaded gasoline. It has a LOT to due with the rpm 
range the engine runs at and how well the cooling system around the 
valves works.

As for Y2K the catch to that was that the trigger date had actually 
already passed for most systems the year before. I only know of a couple 
systems that had any problems. Nothing major.

On the low sulfur fuel GM has been testing already and they are seeing 
problems with the new fuel in the D-Max engines that are not designed 
for it. Mainly injector pumps seizing and injector nozzles sticking. 
They are working on an additive to prevent damage though.

Mike Sloane wrote:
> The biggest one in recent memory was "Y2K" that was going to be pretty 
> much "the end of the world as we know it". Much to everyone's amazement 
> (disappointment?), nothing at all happened at midnight on 12/31/99.
> 
> Of course, when they took the lead out of gasoline, all the old 
> car/truck/tractor/boat engines would have their valves burn up the next 
> day. That didn't happen either. But people still buy "lead substitute" 
> to add to their gas.
> 
> Mike
> 
> Indiana Robinson wrote:
> 
>>
>>     How many other "mostly groundless" (in the real world) dire 
>> warnings can you remember from over the years?
>>
>