The solution was found decades ago:

I wish someone would make an all metric kit. I have one from the 1980s that is perfect for keeping in the car. This one gets close to it (by having pliers, adj wrench, etc, no hammer though), but because they had to make room for inch sized wrenches and sockets the metric sizes are trimmed down, stopping at 15mm for…

I wish someone would make an all metric kit. I have one from the 1980s that is perfect for keeping in the car. This…

Now don’t start bringing the written law into this. Dear leader is dear leader.

I didn’t know we had a king

They’ve been doing that in Chicago since the Clintons were in the whitehouse. They just shutdown the expressways, peasants be damned. It is a clear demonstration of the reality vs. the illusion.

If they thought him a suicide bomber the cops would have run the other way and shot him from a distance. Officer safety first!

Sadly it has become the duty of us all to keep track of our dear king and his minions and not disturb them with our mere existence. People like it this way. They babble about “security” and other nonsense but they just like having a king.

As seen before NYC cops don’t need a reason to body slam a bicyclist.

The only flaw in the line of thinking that they only sell new trucks is the guy who buys new trucks his employees use. Employees who don’t care because it’s not their truck. People really beat company equipment to death and I doubt they are any nicer to trucks. That said one could argue that’s an internal company…

There are many MIL specs and standards. For instance, MIL-P-25995, which covers 6061T6 structural pipe and some other alloys. Now they are often copies of or refer to ASTM, ASME, SAE or other specs, but they do exist.

Oh efficiency. That’s one of the reasons people decide they should have the government make their neighbors live like they do. You’ve decided what is best for you and everyone else should live that way. Better yet, everyone else should pay for it. Central planning by the political process btw is not efficient. It…

Because you didn’t need a car on vacation nobody needs one. Perfect control freak everyone-has-to-live-like-me attitude. The sort of attitude that decides what other people need and has the idea that other people should have only what they need, nothing more. Which is the attitude of the people who are pushing this…

I have no idea what you’re talking about. The wedge test described sounds like it came from some sort of GM internal standard. The dumping of bricks sounds like it may be some sort of abuse test from a similar standard.

So the thing requires about a grand a month in repairs and service.

GM like most every company probably has some internal abuse tests that must be passed. My guess is that GM’s are different from Ford’s and they found one of GM’s tests the Ford didn’t pass. Ford could probably take GM’s truck and find some Ford test it doesn’t pass.

The whole bed can be removed by removing a few bolts on a typical (body & frame) pickup.

And rust makes holes.

The US Military has their own set of engineering standards and specifications. The overview handbook for aluminum is MIL-HDBK-694A. There will be more detailed specs and standards for the alloys, heat treatment, and coatings. Sometimes a MIL spec will simply refer to an industry body’s spec.

One size fits all. The government regulars have demanded and so it shall be. It’s for your own good. If you don’t like it go buy some worn out old car. See you still have choice.

What? You don’t like a corporation having a monopoly on food? You must be anti-science!