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<p>When I was working a the tractor shop in the 70's the boss
started importing Satoh tractors to fill the need for the worn
out 8 & 9N fords. We had exhausted the supply of them to
restore in OK. When I got out of college for the summer and
started back to working we had one set of metric sockets and one
set of metric wrenches that the warehouse in Dallas had supplied
for us to use on t hose tractors. <br>
Cecil<br>
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<div dir="ltr">By the time we tried metrication in the USA (around
1975-1982 per Wikipedia) there was already a vast amount of
imported goods here that used metric fasteners, including cars
and trucks and motorcycles and tractors and machine tools and
the list goes on and on. Personally, I had little Honda
dirtbikes in the early 1970's, before the official push, and I
was busy collecting Craftsman metric sockets and combo wrenches
right alongside my growing SAE collection like it was no big
deal. I cannot imagine a United States so insular that we could
all get along fine with nothing but SAE in our boxes.
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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
susceptible.
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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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at 10:35 AM James Peck <<a
href="mailto:jamesgpeck@hotmail.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">jamesgpeck@hotmail.com</a>>
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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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