Ford continues 5.4

hone eagle wrote:


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The old 5.4 soldiers on for 3 more years at reduced capacity .
Left unsaid but it will likely mean the V10 will continue as well.

That is good to hear. The Triton type modular Ford engines are normally so reliable that Ford elected to use the similar V-10 6.8L in HD trucks beyond new offerings in our smaller pick-ups. I don't know if this is, or will be continued. The 5.4L engine was also used in a 550HP version of Shelby's GT500, which speaks volumes as to its durability.

Every engine has a weak link, the part that dies first, and I had a V-10 that quit unexpectedly. I speculated on what might generally finally happen to the engine in this recent post, but it is only a theory on my part. I have hopes to see the engine replaced with another V-10 and to take a peek in the crankcase to better verify the original problem.

It is nice to see the jobs retained also. The Windsor plant has a long and respected history, and much of that is due to highly skilled workers. The men and women that work at that plant can afford to buy a new Ford, while this is not true of workers in Mexico or overseas.

While ol' Henry didn't approve of unions, he did believe that the people that built a product should be able to afford to buy them. He got a lot of flak over improving wages at the time, but ultimately he was right in the building of North America. The other patriotic benefit was that this same intact workerforce and corporate infrastructure won a couple of wars for the U.S and Canada. I'd hate to think of buying bullets and tanks from, say, China.

Offhand, I have always believed there is no moral difference between unions and stockholders. One is organized labor, the other organized small business owners, both designed to wield the power of private group coalition in the age-old act of "hunting and gathering." I've been both a private entrepreneur with a dozen employees, and a union worker.

Wes
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