Originally posted by Procyon:
Marko, whoever posted that doesn't know much about what goes on in Ford engine assembly plants. Every plant that I know of runs every engine through a short test cycle. Sampling of production engines is also done where they are put through much more extensive testing.
I said something to that effect. But what I said was in mass produced engines, the parts are probably not measured as they are installed. Where in a rebuilt engine, the clearances must be measured to see what parts need replacement.
I certainly didn't say no new engines are tested, but testing certainly costs something, so if I were cutting costs, I'd go to a sampling of engines rather than testing them all.
But only if the costs associated with testing were higher than the costs with removing and replacing the few bad engines we find.
FWIW,
TB
