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<p>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. <br>
Just my $0.02<br>
Cecil<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span><span>Some
updates on the 2019 F150 no options pickup I looked
at.<br>
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<div>Base engine is a 3.3L aluminum block V6 with
sprayed in cylinder liners. The Cleveland engine plant
has an attached aluminum foundry.</div>
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<div>Someone somewhere knows what percentage of the
fasteners on the vehicle are metric. </div>
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<div>I suspect the combined highway mileage is a tad
optimistic.</div>
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