[Shaneajanderson]

Not a fuel economy success per se, but another reason manual transmission is the way to go. I had to pull the rear brake drum off my 94 F150 the other day because the axle seal started to leak. When I got the wheel off I saw it still had the little star clips the assembly line uses to hold the drum on as it rolls through the plant.

This pickup is 25 years old, has gone nearly 200k miles, and that drum has never needed to be taken off. In fact the brake shoes are completely fine, and if that seal (which is also the factory equipped one) wouldn't have leaked it still wouldn't have been taken off.