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Yes. Cheers! Preach it! That's one reason I've paid attention to these 3 wire alternators over the years, asking/paying attention to comments about them. Why? How does this impact testing? Can they be swapped with 2 wire alts? I haven't heard good reasons for why. 06 but I think all 6 cylinder Subaru's are this way - I think my H6 outbacks are the same. IOW it's a "feature" of the higher end trims. LMAO Your friend is right - The nature of metallurgical grades make it a stretch to act like it's better than steel or offer value for a new truck buyer. He is right, but in the way us engineers are right when we (I have to try hard to be self aware and manage this) complain about marketing, management, business, accounting, law, social matters and other topics where we talk like we can do another persons job better than others and can't see the forest for the trees. Meanwhile all those other departments are complaining about us engineers social skills, designs, attitudes, complaints, critical nature...see previous comments about the 3 wire alternator. Although Aero's generally don't know alloys. Specifically one individual may, but academically they often have one basic materials 101, or none. "Military Grade" or military reference has been used for decades as marketing tools, some more accurate than others. Over zealous marketing works and should surprise no one, particularly well educated people. People today have highly tuned BS meters, marketing is closely aligned with "might be somewhat true" now. We've moved from suggestive to directly disingenuous. Marketing researches how many adds people see, what it takes to get through the sheer volume. My favorite marketing pro comment ever that is never heard outside of board rooms: "The best consumer is an unhappy one". Welcome to 2022. At a minimum the Military does "spec" things to the extent their process doesn't allow a manufacturer to use a bunch of road side cans smashed together to build a rotor. And there are existing generic aluminum grades that are used by the military. So here are two expanded constructions of the phrase "Military grade": 1. military *only* grade 2. Military *uses this* grade This is an over simplification and stepping out of the metallurgical weeds, but at least makes it easier to see. When truncated by the asterisks, both of those sentences say "military grade" but mean different things. Again, over simplification, but your friend is rightfully arguing for a #1 interpretation since that's almost implied, while Ford is taking......(drum roll please) A NUMBER 2! (comedy points please!). (hit the cymbals). Speaking of fun, crushable, cans - the perception most Americans have of aluminum - is crush beer cans Friday night, "my machinist won't touch aluminum, says it's garbage" and "aluminum welds like !)(*)%!", or "i hate aluminum I have to carry two welders" or "remember that bent Iphone ad - I bow down to the competition, that was brilliant!". Ford was wise to make some steps to temper perception of aluminum for new truck buyers. I got phone calls when those ads and trucks came out (by friends who currently own them). And who cares - I don't think anyone believes their aluminum truck will be a military tank, bullet proof, or will surpass steel. If they do, like many over zealous high expectation consumers, they'll just trade it in and move on. If there's a problem there are lemon laws, warranties, recalls, TSB's, and truck body parts and beds are 100 times easier to replace than a Subaru rear quarter panel.

I'm not sure I buy that argument. Might be a factor, but there are just too few engineers out there who know when to take a step back and say, "I know I can do this. The question is, should I do this?" Ford: I just finished a timing job on my daughters' '05 4.0 V6 Mustang (the plastic chain guides went to pieces). We had to pull the motor to do it because those morons took a perfectly good V6 and made it OHC by replacing the usual V cam (with lifters and push rods) with a jackshaft that in turn feeds the cams, one of the chains for which is at the back of the block. As if that isn't bad enough, we had to buy a special toolkit to time it because none of the timing sprockets are actually keyed to their shafts and are kept in time by hugs and prayer. And on their aluminum trucks: I know an aeronautical engineer (through sailing - he used to build Tornado catamarans). This is a brother who knows his alloys. I told him the ads for those trucks made me yell at the TV, and here's his reply: > Incidentally, the Canadian TV commercials for the Ford F150 truck > boasts that the body is made of Military grade aluminum. There is > no such material as military grade aluminum, so it must be a figment > of some marketeers imagination. Who would knowingly buy a truck > with a body made of an imaginary material?

I ended up just getting the OEM assembled unit. now the alignment shop is arguing with me saying they can't get it in spec because something is bent. It was fine with the old control arm, it should only be better now haha

So I put the orange clock in and it's been working perfectly so far, but I think I know why they went to the green clock, it is almost impossible to read when it's sunny out, the orange numbers just completely wash out. You either have to shade it with your hand or head in a different direction.