Its not just that most people don't want to pay what the part costs to make in America. All so all of our factory machines have been sold and moved out of the country. Good news though in the last for years new manufacering building has risen to 9% of all new contruction its starting to come back. Prier to that it was under 2% I think I know it was very low.
Whatever type of product you are looking for, it's increasingly difficult to find things not made in China. Sad that I feel accomplished when I find something made in Vietnam instead.
I have had 2 of these NSS switches start pouring trans fluid out of the center pin. They suck and should never be used. I ended up buying a NOS US made one and its been working great.l
My bud closed up his shop, he did driveshafts and u joints/driveline stuff, more and more people want the cheapest garbage installed, don't want to spend the extra for quality, was very frustrating, he eventually just said f it!😑
I’m 68 and when I was a kid under 10, toys that said ‘Made in China’ on them were crap, especially the plastic ones, and you knew wouldn’t last. Nothing changes!😕😕😕
As a pro who works on everything its becoming such an issue for me it is one of the factors for considering leaving this trade for a different one. They should be referred to as counterfeit parts at this point. Not "aftermarket".
I have a 97 chevy pick-up and for 2 years I was replacing the distributor cap every 4 months. I got lucky about 2 years ago and my current cap has been holding up. The good thing with these junk parts is you get lots of mechanical practice.
Even dealer parts are garbage anymore. You think it's bad being a DIY mechanic, try running a shop trying to explain this to customers. How many times can you warranty a part for some one? I had this issue with an oem oil pressure sensor. 4 in a years time and all leaking oil at the contact pins
I've lost most of my original regulars due to them passing away but Im dreading the day the chinesium catches up with me fully because the comebacks for warranty have already begun over this last year like never before. It's always any cooling system parts made of plastic, sensors, and especially suspension parts if you are not special ordering 1st world made parts.
100% CORRECT. That's the reason I avoided TransDapt back in the 90's and it's only gotten worse. It was garbage then but it would be considered average today because everyone else has lowered their quality standards. The US government sold us out by allowing our jobs to go overseas.
i had something similar like that happened to me on an old dodge. i removed the piece and sprayed it with starting fluid , stood it upside down let it dry off and then applied crazy glue around where the metal meets the plastic. never had a problem with it leaking again!
Clean it up real well and use a 2 part epoxy a little sanding and an O-ring .Long as your not leaking and starts and stops your good.I treat all parts like race parts -racecar parts RACECAR PROBLEMS
Any technical hobby or profession! Another YTer Louis Rossman has been covering this topic for a while. He owns a computer tech repair shop and has made several videos on Chinese parts on amazon being absolute garbage. Bad news all around. Hope you’re doing well Dennis! Regarding driving “cool” cars, saw a brand new 911 Dakar in town… what a car.
100% accurate! I have a classic car and love the hobby but as time goes on it’s getting more frustrating to say the least. Ignition control modules, coils, axle seals, carb rebuild kits. The list goes on.. I don’t care who the manufacturer is, 90% of it is all manufactured overseas. Nothing but shit! 😡
I went through the same thing on my Grand Cherokee with thermostats. I put 4 in it in a 3 year span. Fortunately they all failed open. The quickest turn around was one month and that one was the most expensive of the group. Even the Stant thermostat failed in less than a year.
China can copy the look of something but has no idea the engineering behind it. Anyone can contract a Chinese company and say make this switch for fifty cents a unit 😮 Now if you want to spend $10 per switch then they’d make a good one
great video! i work on all my own vehicles, for about the last 10 years i have been having major issues with parts being DOA and going through 2 or 3 exchanges before getting a sub standard part that work for a short time..................
Most likely your "Chinesium" diagnosis is correct. That said, I wonder if something happened to the transmission to cause elevated pressure??? 727 is a fine transmission, but I know first hand it is possible to spin a bearing, have VERY elevated pressure, and drive it for a LONG time unwittingly. In my case, the first sign of trouble a year before was trouble with the trans cooler/lines over time due to high pressure.
A friend and I are thinking of setting up a side business 3d printing and manufacturing high quality components for certain classics. I've already been making hard to find replacement parts for my own classic Mopar for a few years now.
Lol I feel no pain for you ....why cause in the last 40 years of wrenching I have a box full of those OEM switches from all the parts collecting... Cause when I lost my job to NAFTA... I saw the writing on the wall.
I was once ASE Certified Master Automotive Technician,...two year degree in industrial mechanical technology for local industry that shut down and now gets done in japan and china and no industrial jobs here in the usa, ...with secondary automotive repair classes cause I was always interested in cars, mechanic experience in the military for three and a half years and a war zone desert shield/desert storm, and automotive repair experience in civilian life but not that many years to talk shit bout, but I know vehicles, have tools, even newer books on the subjects,.....I'm biting my nails on the parts I bought off ebay for my 1997 chevy c2500,...already installed an ac dash control unit, the resistor and the fan,...original fan was out and I might rebuilt it someday cause its american made,,,or was canadian,...then I just received turn signal switch, turn signal relay, and ignition switch to be installed, bought off ebay low cost, definitely chinese made. If I bought it all from the parts store it would be dorman chinese made and bout double to triple or quadruple the cost. Some years ago I put in two oxygen sensors in my foreign car, just to have new with other sensors, threw out the old ones like a fool, then four months into use one of the oxygen sensors failed,..its still failed, I get a check engine light, was of course cheap chinese knockoffs of the real korean kia parts. I have a rebuilt alternator in the old kia now,..obviously rebuilt with cheap chinese bearings,...the belt squeals for awhile when starting up,...and no its now loose,..might be too tight now, but its the bearing that gives too much resistance,...brand new rebuilt unit,...I had returned a first unit,...took hours to install and remove,...ground down the belt material all over the first new alternator,...the second one is less worse,...pisses me off, and now my neighbors and anyone else hear the squeal for awhile and thinks I drive a total piece of shit making noise even at night,.. and will likely have to replace the belt in another six months,...maybe every six months,...no choice.
You will have to excuse my long rant,...I took these matters seriously once, and in some ways still do....we've been sold out by those who take campaign funds both parties and they get mansions and luxury cars and the rest of us get cheap chinese made garbage and struggle to even repair our own old cars or collectibles,..I didn't think I'd see this back in the late seventies through the mid eighties when I was a young hot rod enthusiast with like six car magazine subscriptions,..well, until the late eighties when industry was being shut down and I had to join the military.
Maybe the heat from the exhaust is ruining that that part because you mentioned it was close to your exhaust maybe the stocks are exhaust wouldn't be run by it maybe the aftermarket exhaust is the problem aftermarket exhaust is never the problem you know what I'm saying maybe there's a lot of heat coming off that part of the exhaust and ruining that part otherwise you definitely got Chinese Chinese rocks whatever they scraped off the side of the hill and melted into metal Japan's always got pretty good parts
Zero quality control . They know the parts are junk when they are manufactured ; they just don't want to scrap them and take the loss. They put them in boxes and shove em down the little guys throat.
Can that "safety switch" be bypassed? And a plug be put in its place? I'm not familiar with your transmission. But I'm always amazed on most automatic transmissions that appear to be built so robust. To see such obviously frail failure points in the case castings. New viewer. Just curious. Probably got sent this video because I watch Uncle Tony. Sorry for your horrible transmission fluid leak over what should be a simple part.
I'M OLD,i remember when we used to get mad when stuff was made in japan,now that we have metric tons of crap coming from china,MADE IN CHINA,never want to see the words again in my country,HARBOR FREIGHT vises breaking in half,if i hadn't seen it,i wouldn't have believed it,CHINA has to have a line of parts for their vehicles,NOT what they are selling us,no way they could have a economy based on their junk they send over here,I KNOW THEY LAUGH AT US A LOT,DISMAL TIMES,my mopars that are dead stock,have went up in value,just by being running stock cars,with MADE IN THE USA ON THEM
@@Dryloch Old cars were extremely slow when compared to today. I learned that specifically in 2009 when I drove a BMW 128. After I got out of it I was shocked, "it feels fast". I looked it up and realized 0-60 -5.7 seconds. This wasn't even the turbo version which was quite a bit faster. A lot of cars then were coming in under 6 seconds for 0-60 times. Skip to more than 15 years later, fast cars are everywhere. During the "oil crisis" and after cars sucked. Now they have buckets of HP&TQ. Unfortunately these turbo motors are fragile and few of them last longer than 150000 miles.
@gcanada3005 I got rid of my 94 Vette because the headaches keeping it running were not worth it. It also felt slow compared to my model 3, which does 60 in 3.7. Even on the Michelin all seasons, it corners better than the Corvette did.
Only use Chinese made parts that are easy to change and/or won't leave you stranded. Unless you have the means to make quality parts at prices people will pay for, complaining does little.
You want a better part and imply you would be willing to pay for it. The rest of America, however, is gone on the record that they want low price. So the manufacturers are, in general, giving the American consumer what we are asking for. It’s us, not them, creating all the junk in the market. China has proven able to build high quality products like iPhones. Why? Because the consumer wants it. Consumers drive production. Consumer demand for 50 year old car parts doesn’t drive squat. No offense intended. Just economic reality.
Your anger is miss guided. Why not boycott the American business selling these cheap parts. Your energy should be focused on regulation, labor laws, stupid lawsuits, government back door deals. Its Americans that are hurting the hobby. Also you assumption that American made is better is the stupidest train of thought. Its just humans assembling parts. Bad in every group
Wow and to think, when your car called Radiogunk call-in show to say the exact same thing. You were extremely dismissive and I may say, extremely uncaring.
@@Slicknutz444 Do you listen to Radiogunk? If not, I’m guessing you are on the outside of this joke. Which i believe anyone reading would think, is quite obvious.
Thank the CEOs chasing bigger bonuses.
Its not just that most people don't want to pay what the part costs to make in America. All so all of our factory machines have been sold and moved out of the country. Good news though in the last for years new manufacering building has risen to 9% of all new contruction its starting to come back. Prier to that it was under 2% I think I know it was very low.
Whatever type of product you are looking for, it's increasingly difficult to find things not made in China. Sad that I feel accomplished when I find something made in Vietnam instead.
@@hattorihanzo2275 i now get excited when I see heche in Mexico
I have had 2 of these NSS switches start pouring trans fluid out of the center pin. They suck and should never be used. I ended up buying a NOS US made one and its been working great.l
My bud closed up his shop, he did driveshafts and u joints/driveline stuff, more and more people want the cheapest garbage installed, don't want to spend the extra for quality, was very frustrating, he eventually just said f it!😑
That is what I have noticed by me also. That sucks.
I’m 68 and when I was a kid under 10, toys that said ‘Made in China’ on them were crap, especially the plastic ones, and you knew wouldn’t last. Nothing changes!😕😕😕
As a pro who works on everything its becoming such an issue for me it is one of the factors for considering leaving this trade for a different one. They should be referred to as counterfeit parts at this point. Not "aftermarket".
I have a 97 chevy pick-up and for 2 years I was replacing the distributor cap every 4 months. I got lucky about 2 years ago and my current cap has been holding up. The good thing with these junk parts is you get lots of mechanical practice.
Even dealer parts are garbage anymore. You think it's bad being a DIY mechanic, try running a shop trying to explain this to customers. How many times can you warranty a part for some one? I had this issue with an oem oil pressure sensor. 4 in a years time and all leaking oil at the contact pins
@@doughart1855 Sadly I completely agree
I've lost most of my original regulars due to them passing away but Im dreading the day the chinesium catches up with me fully because the comebacks for warranty have already begun over this last year like never before. It's always any cooling system parts made of plastic, sensors, and especially suspension parts if you are not special ordering 1st world made parts.
100% CORRECT. That's the reason I avoided TransDapt back in the 90's and it's only gotten worse. It was garbage then but it would be considered average today because everyone else has lowered their quality standards. The US government sold us out by allowing our jobs to go overseas.
i had something similar like that happened to me on an old dodge. i removed the piece and sprayed it with starting fluid , stood it upside down let it dry off and then applied crazy glue around where the metal meets the plastic. never had a problem with it leaking again!
That is one way to fix it. Ingenuity
Taiwan has a generally excellent reputation for quality, it’s the other countries that can’t get it right.
It is a proven fact that people choose the lowest cost parts even given all the other considerations.
We are our own enemy
they cheap out on items so they can self medicate on alcohol and cigarettes and all sorts of other bad chemicals.
Clean it up real well and use a 2 part epoxy a little sanding and an O-ring .Long as your not leaking and starts and stops your good.I treat all parts like race parts -racecar parts RACECAR PROBLEMS
Any technical hobby or profession! Another YTer Louis Rossman has been covering this topic for a while. He owns a computer tech repair shop and has made several videos on Chinese parts on amazon being absolute garbage. Bad news all around.
Hope you’re doing well Dennis! Regarding driving “cool” cars, saw a brand new 911 Dakar in town… what a car.
100% accurate! I have a classic car and love the hobby but as time goes on it’s getting more frustrating to say the least. Ignition control modules, coils, axle seals, carb rebuild kits. The list goes on.. I don’t care who the manufacturer is, 90% of it is all manufactured overseas. Nothing but shit! 😡
And as a hobbiest you can only replace things so many times till you just say enough.
I went through the same thing on my Grand Cherokee with thermostats. I put 4 in it in a 3 year span. Fortunately they all failed open. The quickest turn around was one month and that one was the most expensive of the group. Even the Stant thermostat failed in less than a year.
I bought a damn egr valve from standard parts, the same company you showed earlier for a buick 3800, lasted maybe 2000 miles.
You're absolutely correct DJ.
The parts are substandard and inferior!
Thanks for sharing. 👍 🇺🇸👍
China can copy the look of something but has no idea the engineering behind it. Anyone can contract a Chinese company and say make this switch for fifty cents a unit 😮 Now if you want to spend $10 per switch then they’d make a good one
great video! i work on all my own vehicles, for about the last 10 years i have been having major issues with parts being DOA and going through 2 or 3 exchanges before getting a sub standard part that work for a short time..................
Sounds to me the problem stems from the fact it's right up near the exhaust.
not really, they are all nearish but there is enough air space to keep it from getting too hot
Most likely your "Chinesium" diagnosis is correct. That said, I wonder if something happened to the transmission to cause elevated pressure???
727 is a fine transmission, but I know first hand it is possible to spin a bearing, have VERY elevated pressure, and drive it for a LONG time unwittingly. In my case, the first sign of trouble a year before was trouble with the trans cooler/lines over time due to high pressure.
i'm pretty sure the part he's talking about doesn't go into any pressurized area.
A friend and I are thinking of setting up a side business 3d printing and manufacturing high quality components for certain classics. I've already been making hard to find replacement parts for my own classic Mopar for a few years now.
Cool, I have been interested in this for a few years. There are plastic parts on gen 3 Chargers that are impossible. Love to learn more.
I am a private mechanic and have had really good luck with Standard Ignition parts EXCEPT for those Neutral Safety Switches...
some one send this dude a tripod!
I have noticed the poor quality Model A Ford parts on the market now. 😇🙏
Nothing can escape it, and NOS is a bit hard to find.
Last nite I went looking for a particular part too..every aftermarket part was chinesium no matter US based name brand…frikin disgusting!
Am old enuf to remember when EVERYTHING in & around your home, garage, ranch or farm was MADE IN AMERICA, & (((worked))) !
Lol I feel no pain for you ....why cause in the last 40 years of wrenching I have a box full of those OEM switches from all the parts collecting... Cause when I lost my job to NAFTA... I saw the writing on the wall.
Made in USA ❤❤❤❤ GREATINGS FRO THE NETHERLANDS
I was once ASE Certified Master Automotive Technician,...two year degree in industrial mechanical technology for local industry that shut down and now gets done in japan and china and no industrial jobs here in the usa, ...with secondary automotive repair classes cause I was always interested in cars, mechanic experience in the military for three and a half years and a war zone desert shield/desert storm, and automotive repair experience in civilian life but not that many years to talk shit bout, but I know vehicles, have tools, even newer books on the subjects,.....I'm biting my nails on the parts I bought off ebay for my 1997 chevy c2500,...already installed an ac dash control unit, the resistor and the fan,...original fan was out and I might rebuilt it someday cause its american made,,,or was canadian,...then I just received turn signal switch, turn signal relay, and ignition switch to be installed, bought off ebay low cost, definitely chinese made. If I bought it all from the parts store it would be dorman chinese made and bout double to triple or quadruple the cost. Some years ago I put in two oxygen sensors in my foreign car, just to have new with other sensors, threw out the old ones like a fool, then four months into use one of the oxygen sensors failed,..its still failed, I get a check engine light, was of course cheap chinese knockoffs of the real korean kia parts. I have a rebuilt alternator in the old kia now,..obviously rebuilt with cheap chinese bearings,...the belt squeals for awhile when starting up,...and no its now loose,..might be too tight now, but its the bearing that gives too much resistance,...brand new rebuilt unit,...I had returned a first unit,...took hours to install and remove,...ground down the belt material all over the first new alternator,...the second one is less worse,...pisses me off, and now my neighbors and anyone else hear the squeal for awhile and thinks I drive a total piece of shit making noise even at night,.. and will likely have to replace the belt in another six months,...maybe every six months,...no choice.
You will have to excuse my long rant,...I took these matters seriously once, and in some ways still do....we've been sold out by those who take campaign funds both parties and they get mansions and luxury cars and the rest of us get cheap chinese made garbage and struggle to even repair our own old cars or collectibles,..I didn't think I'd see this back in the late seventies through the mid eighties when I was a young hot rod enthusiast with like six car magazine subscriptions,..well, until the late eighties when industry was being shut down and I had to join the military.
Trans vent probably is clogged and builds up and pushes out the switch.
Nope,
I have been told that many/most metal items from far east are, as a bonus, slightly to moderately irradiated.
It’s part of their culture to be shady.
Incorrect. They make things to order.
So it is in DC as well...
They lost their values during the Cultural Revolution, when they became totally demoralized. Kinda like what’s happening in the US these days.
Maybe the heat from the exhaust is ruining that that part because you mentioned it was close to your exhaust maybe the stocks are exhaust wouldn't be run by it maybe the aftermarket exhaust is the problem aftermarket exhaust is never the problem you know what I'm saying maybe there's a lot of heat coming off that part of the exhaust and ruining that part otherwise you definitely got Chinese Chinese rocks whatever they scraped off the side of the hill and melted into metal Japan's always got pretty good parts
Rapid in heat wrap
Agree 100%
Doesn’t matter what you are buying just assume it’s at least partly made overseas it’s a product of today’s world.
True but Chinese products seem to have the least care and quality
You can get a NOS one. But you don't want to pay the price.
True, and sometimes NOS is a bad part put back on a shelf
Try going to an electrical shop that rebuilds components.
Zero quality control . They know the parts are junk when they are manufactured ; they just don't want to scrap them and take the loss. They put them in boxes and shove em down the little guys throat.
Can that "safety switch" be bypassed? And a plug be put in its place?
I'm not familiar with your transmission. But I'm always amazed on most automatic transmissions that appear to be built so robust. To see such obviously frail failure points in the case castings. New viewer. Just curious. Probably got sent this video because I watch Uncle Tony. Sorry for your horrible transmission fluid leak over what should be a simple part.
Precision transmission on UA-cam may be able to get you correct parts
Try a dizzy for a Nissan 3.3L - buy 3 or 4 so you make it home. Spectra/No Name Ebay and Amazon/ etc. All China made garbage.
I'M OLD,i remember when we used to get mad when stuff was made in japan,now that we have metric tons of crap coming from china,MADE IN CHINA,never want to see the words again in my country,HARBOR FREIGHT vises breaking in half,if i hadn't seen it,i wouldn't have believed it,CHINA has to have a line of parts for their vehicles,NOT what they are selling us,no way they could have a economy based on their junk they send over here,I KNOW THEY LAUGH AT US A LOT,DISMAL TIMES,my mopars that are dead stock,have went up in value,just by being running stock cars,with MADE IN THE USA ON THEM
Still waiting on those 0-60 times. Unless you don’t want to post them for some reason?
I don't know about his build...but it is funny that most of the 13 second muscle cars were far from stock.
@@Dryloch Old cars were extremely slow when compared to today. I learned that specifically in 2009 when I drove a BMW 128. After I got out of it I was shocked, "it feels fast". I looked it up and realized 0-60 -5.7 seconds. This wasn't even the turbo version which was quite a bit faster. A lot of cars then were coming in under 6 seconds for 0-60 times. Skip to more than 15 years later, fast cars are everywhere.
During the "oil crisis" and after cars sucked. Now they have buckets of HP&TQ. Unfortunately these turbo motors are fragile and few of them last longer than 150000 miles.
@gcanada3005 I got rid of my 94 Vette because the headaches keeping it running were not worth it. It also felt slow compared to my model 3, which does 60 in 3.7. Even on the Michelin all seasons, it corners better than the Corvette did.
@@Dryloch exactly
Only use Chinese made parts that are easy to change and/or won't leave you stranded. Unless you have the means to make quality parts at prices people will pay for, complaining does little.
Ignition modules, fuel pumps......
I really hope Trump brings back made in USA.
You want a better part and imply you would be willing to pay for it. The rest of America, however, is gone on the record that they want low price. So the manufacturers are, in general, giving the American consumer what we are asking for. It’s us, not them, creating all the junk in the market. China has proven able to build high quality products like iPhones. Why? Because the consumer wants it. Consumers drive production. Consumer demand for 50 year old car parts doesn’t drive squat. No offense intended. Just economic reality.
U sure it is Chinesium?, could be Chinomium......
Your anger is miss guided. Why not boycott the American business selling these cheap parts.
Your energy should be focused on regulation, labor laws, stupid lawsuits, government back door deals.
Its Americans that are hurting the hobby.
Also you assumption that American made is better is the stupidest train of thought. Its just humans assembling parts. Bad in every group
drunk.
Wow and to think, when your car called Radiogunk call-in show to say the exact same thing. You were extremely dismissive and I may say, extremely uncaring.
Did you have a stroke
@@Slicknutz444 Do you listen to Radiogunk? If not, I’m guessing you are on the outside of this joke. Which i believe anyone reading would think, is quite obvious.
Lol boomer blaming china instead of u.s.a policies for the pass 70 years. U think it happened overnight? 😂
Not a boomer, and it has less to do with policy as it is all out economic war by China.
I worry more about Chinese medical supplies. No one talks about them making medicines for big pharma
Just buy extras and stop bitching.
@@dashlamb9318 from where? That’s the point