[AT] tractor hauling truck

[Phil Auten]

The metrification began before the 80's, Stephen. I owned a '72 Pinto 
Wagon that was mixed SAE and metric. I suspect that every foreign car 
imported into the US was either all metric or a mix, since most of the 
rest of the world has been on the metric system for several decades.

Phil in TX


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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