[AT] tractor hauling truck

[Cecil Bearden]

The only thing that metrication did was put a harbor freight store in 
every medium sized town in the USA.  We were sold that lie that we had 
to go metric so that we could ship things across the pond.  It was the 
other way around....  All it did for me was to create a duplication of 
wrenches and bolts.  If possible, when a metric bolt or nut is stripped, 
it gets replaced with a SAE. The metric fasteners that first came over 
here were so soft they were not even a grade 2..  Now I have an 
assortment of metric and SAE in Grade 8, but it sure creates a lot of 
expensive inventory. Not to mention the British Pipe fasteners on a lot 
of the late model tractors.
Just my $0.02
Cecil

On 2/23/2020 5:15 PM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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