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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Ken Adams who wrote (51515)9/23/2006 2:01:07 PM
From: Jim S  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
I think GM must have fired their reliability engineers as part of their cost cutting processes. MTBF (mean time between failure) should be the main consideration in accessability of components.

Actually, the fuel pump in the gas tank makes sense from that perspective. The main reason an electric fuel pump will fail is because of it running dry, ie, the operator running too low on gas. From an engineer's point of view, such failures aren't an engineering problem, they're an operator problem. They also don't feel responsible for ruining an engine that doesn't have any oil in it. <G>
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