[AT] tractor hauling truck

[Stephen Offiler]

Sprayed liners are far from new.  BMW built motorcycle engines with this
technology back in the 1980's and riders have been know to put 300,000 and
more miles on those bikes.  There was a time BMW car engines used a similar
technology and developed a bad reputation.  It was actually due to high
sulfur fuel, and for one thing our fuel in the USA now has far lower sulfur
than back then, and for another thing the whole industry moved to a
different alloy that is not susceptible.

Does anyone care what percentage of the fasteners are metric?  I've been
wrenching domestic vehicles that have a mix of SAE and metric ever since we
tried the metric system in the USA back in the 80's.  It's hardly an issue
worth mention.

And several car companies in recent years have paid large fines for
overstating fuel economy.  I'll go out on a limb here and guess that Ford
has incentive to be very truthful with those numbers.


SO

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 10:35 AM James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Some updates on the 2019 F150 no options pickup I looked at.
> ​
> Base engine is a 3.3L aluminum block V6 with sprayed in cylinder liners.
> The Cleveland engine plant has an attached aluminum foundry.​
> ​
> Someone somewhere knows what percentage of the fasteners on the vehicle
> are metric. ​
> ​
> I suspect the combined highway mileage is a tad optimistic.​
> ​
> https://www.wardsauto.com/penton_modal/nojs/forward/50363/0
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