"Eisboch" wrote in message
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US cars are routinely getting over 100K miles now, many over 200K miles.
Keep up with the oil changes and you can almost run them forever. Nothing
like the cars of the past...........


I still have a 1985 F150 straight 6 that runs fine at 170k miles

Those 300 ci Ford engines were excellent.

Eisboch

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My dad bought a Ford Station wagon years ago, that had the 300 ci Ford 6 in
it. They said they thought the tranny was broke as it stopped driving but
the engine was still running. Since then they could not get the engine
started. Problem was the motor sheared the crankshaft at the main for #6
and off course to restart it the camshaft would not turn from the starter
end. Tossed a new crank in and engine good to go. Why can't Ford make
something as dependable now?