Ford to replace cast suspension control arms.After a December December: see month. recall of more than 100 GT sports cars, Ford Motor Co., Dearborn Dearborn, city (1990 pop. 89,286), Wayne co., SE Mich., on the River Rouge, adjoining Detroit; settled 1795, consolidated with the city of Fordson in 1928, inc. as a city 1929. , Mich., is assembling new models with forged forge 1 n. 1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated or wrought; a smithy. 2. A workshop where pig iron is transformed into wrought iron. v. aluminum suspension control arms, which re place the previously cast arms, as reported by Auto (AUTOmatic) Refers to a wide variety of devices that perform unattended operations. Week magazine. Fords original control arm supplier cast the components using semi-solid casting methods, the first time Ford had its control arms produced in this process. However, cracks appeared in an arm during a GT test inspection. The casting supplier is machining the forged parts into the finished control arms, and Ford officials said they still will consider the semi-solid casting process for future components. |
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