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To: Ken Adams who wrote (51515)	9/23/2006 1:58:46 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I'm more inclined to appreciate the genius my Dad displayed in his story about his first car, which had wooden spokes in the wheels. When the spokes got loose, he drove it into the creek and let water do the work for him. At the lake a couple of weeks ago, I ran across an old photo of him doing just that. He wrote a little article about it, which appeared in Florida Today (I may have that title wrong, but it's published by Gannett in the same format as USA Today).

To: Ken Adams who wrote (51515)	9/23/2006 2:01:07 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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>