This issue is over Factory warranties/Guarantees and service delays

[Concerned American]

@zbrazdis450​

3 days ago
I'm a full time mechanic. I work on new Fords on a daily basis. The quality and problems that I've encountered on near new, low mileage Ford vehicles would blow your mind. In 20 years working on cars, I've never seen anything like this. America is in for some very dark days ahead.

My best friend of fifty years was a career Ford transmission mechanic and his response to some of "Ford's better ideas" was "I make a lot of money on them." When I heard him say that, I steered clear of that particular model. That should become your mantra for your friends. LOL

 

[Robert W]

manufacturing order of operations. The engine is built on a bench, so to speak, and installed as a unit. They build them. They don't care about ease of repair.

I expect that most engines are assembled by robots now.
I started looking up the best steel for timing chains however I sold some tools to a farmer and included my Machinery's handbook. It has a section that talks about correct grades of steel for many uses. The internet is not very useful when it comes to technical issues like the grades of steel for various purposes.
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For more than 100 years, Machinery's Handbook has been the most popular reference work in metalworking, design, engineering and manufacturing facilities, and technical schools and colleges throughout the world. It is universally acknowledged as an extraordinarily authoritative, comprehensive, and practical tool, providing its users with the most fundamental and essential aspects of sophisticated manufacturing practice. The 31st edition of the “Bible of the Metalworking Industries” contains major revisions of existing content, as well as new material on a variety of topics. It is the essential reference for mechanical, manufacturing, and industrial engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, machinists, engineering and technology students, and the serious home hobbyist.

New to the 31st Edition:

• Expanded metrology section, including v-blocks and micrometer, vernier, and dial calipers.
• New fluid power section covering pneumatic,hydraulic, and vacuum theory and applications.
• New powder metallurgy section, including additive manufacturing.
• Even more useful specs, including tap drill sizes for Unified threads, reaming allowances for drilling, mesh and grit sizes, rules for figuring tapers, and assembly with pins and studs.
• Recently added information on sheet metal and presses, keys and keyways, shaft alignment, taps and tapping, helical coil screw thread inserts, metric screw threads, miniature screws, fluid mechanics, solid geometry, statistics, calculating hole coordinates and thread dimensions, and distinguishing between bolts and screws.

Plus . . .

• Many thoroughly reworked and renovated sections throughout.
• Comprehensive tables of contents at the beginning of each section and extensive indexing.
• Hundreds of new and thousands of refined and redone illustrations and equations.
• Updated standards.
• Expanded metric content.

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[Concerned American]

I expect that most engines are assembled by robots now.
I started looking up the best steel for timing chains however I sold some tools to a farmer and included my Machinery's handbook. It has a section that talks about correct grades of steel for many uses. The internet is not very useful when it comes to technical issues like the grades of steel for various purposes.
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For more than 100 years, Machinery's Handbook has been the most popular reference work in metalworking, design, engineering and manufacturing facilities, and technical schools and colleges throughout the world. It is universally acknowledged as an extraordinarily authoritative, comprehensive, and practical tool, providing its users with the most fundamental and essential aspects of sophisticated manufacturing practice. The 31st edition of the “Bible of the Metalworking Industries” contains major revisions of existing content, as well as new material on a variety of topics. It is the essential reference for mechanical, manufacturing, and industrial engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, machinists, engineering and technology students, and the serious home hobbyist.

New to the 31st Edition:

• Expanded metrology section, including v-blocks and micrometer, vernier, and dial calipers.
• New fluid power section covering pneumatic,hydraulic, and vacuum theory and applications.
• New powder metallurgy section, including additive manufacturing.
• Even more useful specs, including tap drill sizes for Unified threads, reaming allowances for drilling, mesh and grit sizes, rules for figuring tapers, and assembly with pins and studs.
• Recently added information on sheet metal and presses, keys and keyways, shaft alignment, taps and tapping, helical coil screw thread inserts, metric screw threads, miniature screws, fluid mechanics, solid geometry, statistics, calculating hole coordinates and thread dimensions, and distinguishing between bolts and screws.

Plus . . .

• Many thoroughly reworked and renovated sections throughout.
• Comprehensive tables of contents at the beginning of each section and extensive indexing.
• Hundreds of new and thousands of refined and redone illustrations and equations.
• Updated standards.
• Expanded metric content.

Read more

I also spent forty years in the trades, designing, building and repairing mfg. equipment. I spent my career around machine shops, hydraulics, pneumatics, and electronics. I was very happy in my chosen career.