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From: thill@ssc-bee.UUCP (Tom Hill)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: another strange starting problem
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 12:03:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 12:03:38 1985
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> 
> I have tried two Fords. In general, they were not too bad, BUT they
> had a tendency to trash their engines around 85000 miles. (No GM car
> I have owned has done this, I have had several). Also, the Fords tend
> to rust out a bit sooner. Around here, If you see a cloud of smoke
> ahead on the freeway, it is often a Ford in need of a ring job.
> 
> In support of my statement about early rustout, compare the number of
> say 66~70 GM cars visible on the highway to the number of 66~70 Fords.
> There actually ARE GM cars on the road of that vintage, but there are
> damn few Fords. 
> 
> 
> By the way, I change oil and filter regularly in the 4K-5K range. So
> it isn't a maintenance problem. One has to wonder *how* Ford is able 
> to make an engine that actually fails at that point. I rebuilt one
> of them and it looked about the same inside as GM engines. I wonder
> how they do it?

I don't know about you but I see quite a few Ford Mustangs of that vintage
running around.  Fords with the old 350's in them are still around too.
My dad still has a '68 Ford Station Wagon with 280000 on it.  It has the
original engine in it and it has only been opened once and has not been
rebuilt!!  As far as the rust problem goes, all 280000 miles was done in the
Pacific NW and we have had no rust problem.

Old Fords don't die, they just burn more oil.


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