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[Mike M]

My wife is in is in health care and all they use is Metric.

Mike M

On 2/24/2020 9:55 AM, Phil Auten wrote:
>
> 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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