MECHANIC REVEALS WHY FORD IS REALLY CHANGING HOW ITS ENGINES ARE DESIGNED 

In the clip, a mechanic says that the Ford Motor Company is “moving away from oil pumps that are driven directly off the crankshaft.” Instead, the company is opting for a belt-driven oil pump.

“They’re doing this to prevent cavitation at higher RPMs,” the mechanic explains.  

“As the crankshaft moves up and down inside of that gear, it can cause it to break. That’s the main reason that they’ve started moving these oil pumps off of the crankshaft and onto a belt or chain-driven system,

because the chain can take up any amount of vibration the crankshaft’s going to throw at it, it doesn’t really matter.”

In the comments section, some users speculated that this change was not actually about improving the car. Instead, these users alleged that the company was trying to make customers pay more money for repairs.

“If it last 25 plus years and over 200,000 miles….. ford does not want to do that,” a commenter stated. “They want you to replace your vehicle every 5 years or 50,000 miles, so they make more money.”