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Aluminized steel is produced by dipping steel into a molten aluminum silicon alloy. The end result is an outer layer of the aluminum silicon alloy, and intermediate layer (just molecules thick) of steel/aluminum/silicon alloy and the inner base steel. There is no galvanic action that causes...

I can remember when exhaust systems were mild steel and didn't have an aluminized coating. You were lucky if you got 2 years out of the system if you lived in the snow belt. The aluminized steel system on my 68 Barracuda is over 15 years old but it is not driven in the winter if there is snow or...

Same here ?

Oh, that's LeAnn one of the self appointed photographers for Rebels & Rods. The yellow Challenger in the background is hers. That picture was from the Rebels & Rods Sunday morning cars n coffee.

My 68 Barracuda has two buttons on the floor; one for high/low beams and the other for the windshield washer.

Here, in my 68 Barracuda that switch is connected to LED headlights.

When I built my 33 Hot Rod the Ididit column I used didn't have a high/low switch in the column and they didn't offer a retrofit. I wound up picking up a floor switch at O'Reilly's. The foot box is small in the 33 and I had to mount it under the clutch pedal. That was really inconvenient so I...

Let me understand, you want to take a control that you can switch between high/low beams without ever removing your hand from the steering wheel and replace it with a switch you will have to remove your hands from the wheel, doesn't make a lot of sense.

Tearing up the headliner is not required in any way shape or form. Yes you do have to pull down the back edge so that you can fish the wires to 3rd brake light out to put the supplied harness in series with the light. As long as you are willing to take the risk that the trucks emergency...

FWIW, Sylvania and Osram are the same company they merged quite a few years ago. Products marketed for the US market use the Sylvania brand and Osram brand is used in Europe.

If you want the trailer brakes to work with the trucks emergency braking system you need to buy the Ford system. It comes with a Redarc brake controller and a Lumen module that ties into the third brake light. The reason for this is when emergency braking happens the brake light switch on the...

FWIW, I used to do product safety certification (think UL) for Motorola. All the product safety standards around the world consider 60 vDC (42.4 vAC) to be the upper limit as the safe limit for human contact. I wouldn't want to get my hands across 60v if they are wet but certainly no issue if...

Why not go with the Ford Performance or Livernois tunes? They have CARB exemption.

When I had my 17 Mustang I would get Sirius/XM updates about once a month even though I didn't have a subscription. I have not noticed that with the Ranger. Are you sure the updates are not Sirius/XM updates you are seeing.

FWIW, In my 50+ years of wrenching on vehicles I avoid OE parts if I can. OE parts come from the lowest cost supplier that meets the minimum requirements and yes, Ford, GM and Stalantis will source OE parts from China. Also, many Motorcraft parts are not from the same source as what was...

I am using Raybestos Element 3 Hybrid pads on my 33 Speedstar. They have a GG friction coefficient rating. That was the highest I could find for both cold and hot braking. Since the 33 has manual disk brakes I wanted something with a lot of initial bite, they work extremely well on the 33.

Just updated to 5.8.0 and a version of Ford Pass was installed onto my smart watch too. Not sure if this was available before or not. Anyway, I can now lock/unlock the doors and start the truck with my watch. It will also tell me the miles to empty and the location.

When my truck is not running it says; "Vehicle Parked". The Ford Pass app version is 5.7.0 and Sync3 is 3.4.23188

Sync3 has always been that way. When you are running AA or CarPlay the built in nav is not available. The nav icon is replaced with either the AA or CarPlay icon on the Sync3 menu. When running AA or CarPlay what ever nav apps you have on your phone will be available to use, Google Maps, Waze...