5th: In general, though, airlines are getting more reliable. So there’s that.

It’s not a crop. FAG is the name of the company that owns Schaeffler. It stands for Fischer’s Automatische Gusstahlkugelfabrik.

It’s not a crop. FAG is the name of the company that owns Schaeffler. It stands for Fischer’s Automatische Gusstahlkugelfabrik.

It’s not a crop. FAG is the name of the company that owns Schaeffler. It stands for Fischer’s Automatische Gusstahlkugelfabrik.

It’s not a crop. FAG is the name of the company that owns Schaeffler. It stands for Fischer’s Automatische Gusstahlkugelfabrik. 

The ‘97-’03 F150's used the torsion bar setup. I did a suspension rebuild on mine last year, and never even had to remove the torsion bar to do the job. WAAAYYY easier to wrench on than a lot of other setups.

The fact that David missed that the Gen10 F150's (‘97-’03) ditched the TIB for the torsion bar, and still called it rare, definitely surprises me.

I’m commenting only to put 84 gallons into perspective.

I’m commenting only to put 84 gallons into perspective.

Using the term “bear’s nest” really makes me question my carefully calibrated sarcasm-meter. I would also like to see a coyote slip in it. It sounds both hilarious and ridiculous at the same time.

Mine is decidedly Detroit-specific. I pulled into our local Ace Hardware in my ‘99 F250 LD (not the SuperDuty), and when attempting to leave, my battery was dead. Just like that. As I had my hood open in the parking lot with an emergence battery pack, which was doing nothing, a guy walked up and offered to help. …

I know a couple attempts by the auto industry to develop a combined electric supercharger and Belt Alternator Starter into the same package. Interesting idea, but both individual technologies need more development in production first.

Pretty sure it’s more complicated than that...

Good recap of the definitions. It’s the whole “a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not a square” crap we learned in high school.

#3 is always used in combination with #2. I apologize for the vagueness in my other reply.

Electric superchargers take a lot of electric power, and are only used for anti-lag in short bursts. Turbos use a LOT of power, but it’s “free” power, which is why they are actually efficient.

I apologize, I worded that too vaguely!

I can answer that one. Turbos use a lot of power, but they are using “free power” to do the boosting. An electric supercharger only does a spin up to remove lag, and allows for a bigger turbo to be used, allowing the turbo to do more work and the engine gets better power and economy. You would drain a 48V battery…

Most of the major turbo manufacturers are making them now. Borgwarner, Valeo, Eaton, Bosch, etc. They’re harder to get ahold of aftermarket yet, since they are just starting OEM production. You typically have to have a car with a BAS unit too, or you’ll just deplete your 48V battery really quickly.

Work in auto industry. Can confirm that Jason is correct. Hence why most suppliers call electric superchargers “boosters” to make sure there’s no mistaking the definition.

Bosch, BorgWarner, Luk, and a couple others already have electric pedal actuators designed and ready to go. You can keep using the electric clutch pedal (feels like a normal clutch pedal), or skip it all together and let it open the clutch for you when you let off the gas (or some other mechanism of letting it know…