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From: rp321@uiucuxa.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Escort/Lynx/EXP/LN7 Owners: Note
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Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 19:35:00 EST
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/* Written 12:15 pm  Nov 11, 1985 by doug@terak.UUCP in uiucuxa:net.consumers */
/* ---------- "Escort/Lynx/EXP/LN7 Owners: Note" ---------- */
A few months ago the Ford Motor Company mailed out a bulletin to
known owners of Ford Escorts and EXPs and Mercury Lynx and LN7s
advising that engine damage could result if the timing belt failed.
They not only recommended that the belt be replaced at 60,000 miles, 
but also washed their hands of responsibility for engine damage if
an unchanged belt failed after 60,000 miles.

[...]

-- 
Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug
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Looks like another one of Ford's Better Ideas! :-)

			Russell J. Price
			University of Illinois
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