agreywolfe
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unless you have personally examined the vehicle and are an expert at determining causes of fires, it is not "definite"It was definitely a loose fitting or leaky hydraulic line/slave cylinder causing this nasty mess...SNIP
Iām usually not one to drag up old news, but Ford is the company that ran the numbers on the Pinto and pushed ahead anyway.Recalls cost the company less than the downtime for a higher quality product.
accountants have it all priced inā¦ itās cheaper to keep the line running full speed and fix it laterā¦ even if that ends in a mass recall.
8D?I had a Dodge Ram truck. The brake line near the master cylinder sprung a leak and the fluid was sent directly at the exhaust manifold. Fire ensued.
Point being, don't blame the clutch just because clutch fluid was involved. Wait for the 8D.
What was wrong with the Pinto? I wasn't born when it existedRemember the Pinto?
due to the cars design the gas tank was basically the entire crumple zone of the car, so if rear ended could and would burst into flames, there was multiple lawsuits and Ford had to pay a lot of money over itWhat was wrong with the Pinto? I wasn't born when it existed
Thank you for explaining.due to the cars design the gas tank was basically the entire crumple zone of the car, so if rear ended could and would burst into flames, there was multiple lawsuits and Ford had to pay a lot of money over it
An 8D is a tool used in failure analysis.
Sorry, automotive manufacturing talk.
And nobody involved with it at Ford is still working there or even still alive. It's pretty weak to tie an engine bay fire to a design flaw that caused a fire in a rear end collision.What was wrong with the Pinto? I wasn't born when it existed
It (5W) did not originate at Ford. It was first described and used by Sakichi Toyoda, used at Toyota and in some military applications.An 8D is a tool used in failure analysis.
It's a 'problem solving' methodology for finding the 'root cause'
It'll likely use the 5why approach and 5w+2h(who, what,where,when,why,how,how many)
and funnily enough it originates from FORD!
This is what happens when a thread runs its course. Thereās nothing left to say on the original topic, for now, so we go off on non related tangents.And nobody involved with it at Ford is still working there or even still alive. It's pretty weak to tie an engine bay fire to a design flaw that caused a fire in a rear end collision.
GM had a similar issue with side saddle fuel tanks placed outside the frame on pickups, but they were also unfairly vilified by some shady journalism.
@keithwalton was only referring to 8D as originating from Ford.It (5W) did not originate at Ford. It was first described and used by Sakichi Toyoda, used at Toyota and in some military applications.