Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation
There was a request for a link to Ford's answer's to the NHTSA investigation posted on a previous thread, since closed. Here is the link: Ford's NHTSA Answers to the 6.7 investigation This PDF i...
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BenK wrote:
Things like that one way valve becoming a hammer with it's own spring
and the vacuum created by the piston. How does that thing seal? O-Ring
or metal on metal or some other compliant material? Hammered to pit or
flake or ????
Hammer to further create an even higher vacuum to cavitate somewhere
in the compression chamber ?
Or this new one just popped up....micro bubble in the fluid that then
expands due to this vacuum/cavitation to then create a 'dry' (non-lubed)
spot for a micro second...
I know that Delphi is beating their chest about how they got a lot of noise (read hydraulic shock, etc.) out of the new gen injectors.
Something tells me you are onto something interesting.
