Defective Parts Ruin Transmission Installation!
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This is the new normal. I’ve been in the classic car parts industry for over 25 years. At this point used parts are more reliable than some of this repro stuff. A lot of stuff that was made in China is being moved to India and the learning curve is painful to say the least. It’s going to be painful for awhile. Even domestic made parts are dealing with this problem. Many of the old time skilled labor has gone away and replacement labor don’t have the experience or know how to deal with on the spot adjustments and problem solving abilities. Those who do have the skill set are getting burnt out because they get overwhelmed from having to do their work and fixing/solving everybody else’s issues. We have a generation gap of skilled machinists/mechanical minded workers.
I'd rather have a junk yard Motorcraft part than a new chinesium. Experience.
I deliver parts for a living and you are 100% correct the quality control is gone, and even defective returned parts, sometimes used parts, and even cores get put back on the shelf with out even being looked at. Very 😢
It's the same here in the UK. When I was at school, eh-hem, a few years ago. We had metal workshop. I learned to gas weld and braze, how to use drills, laithes etc. that has all gone now. But it goes further than that. I remember as a kid watching a friend of my dad fixing his 63 Galaxie race car, he lifted me into the engine compartment and handed me a wrench to help remove the carbs, I think I was about 5, but do that today and you'd find yourself arrested and appearing on the evening news. And don't get me started on parts. I've just finished building an 1944 Ford GPW (WWII Jeep) and parts quality has been a major issue. The owner wanted it 12v and I went through 5 voltage regulators, from two different suppliers and all had quality issues. Soooo, I ended up using a 50+ year old Lucas regulator, taken off an old Landrover that was parked up in the 80's, let me say that again LUCAS, to get it up and running, It's crazy! But part of the issue I'm finding is brands that you once knew you could trust have gone and had their name picked up by lower quality manufactures.
Years ago when I worked in the automotive aftermarket making exhaust headers. We had a bonus program. For every header that went out and never came back with a fitment problem. They put money into a account and for when one came back they took money out. So we made sure that every thing we built fit like a glove. It was one of the better jobs I've had in my life and it was because of the people I worked with. They made it fun to go to "work". 6=8.
I put a couple sets of those headers on my Mustangs years ago. They were great. Thanks!
@@PantoPhobe-dm2fd No Problemo.
Our High Schools here in the Missouri Ozarks sends students to Ozarks Technological Community College and have been producing quality graduates for over 20 years.
Bingo 👍👍👍....good reporting....this needs to become an issue to the suppliers who depend and profit from us. They depend on us to satisfy their share holders because right now they could care less as long as we're forking over the money 🤬.....in the meantime avoid new parts when possible
School boards cannot afford to put in shop class, autoshop clas, etc. This a problem at municipal, state, and federal political levels. Start electing politicians that support the trades.
alwayslearning8365 It seems like schools want kids to fit into two groups .Either college or sports. Well news flash everybody is not good at sports I know I wasn't. When I was in high school back in the 70's. I took every shop class they offered. And thanks to my Late Dad who was of the mind why buy it if you can make it. I'm a pretty good fabricator.
Its worse than politicians that don't support trades. It's so many other things including cost of living, job opportunity, risk, health insurance, housing, etc. A lot of it can be attributed to poorly regulating where all the profits go. It should be going into things that support the trades and the trades people (amongst many, many other things) and instead it goes to shareholders.
Most pre-graduation trades training is now done at separate vocational schools. They maintain the tried & true trades that will offer employment for the foreseeable next 20-30 years. Most campuses are shifting courses over to entry level IT jobs as trades were showing lower & lower enrollment rates. I haven't checked enrollment data recently, but I hope there's an upswing.
The overall quantity of these parts being made every year is getting smaller and smaller so production gets shifted to smaller manufacturers and that also leads to lower quality shops making short run stuff and not really caring about the customers because they don't care if they loose a customer of a low production part. But it's not just parts it's materials etc.
Yep had the same issue when I had my 390 rebuilt and to add to the madness I bought a heavy duty flex plate from jegs it said fits 360/390/429 FE engines . After installing the rebuilt engine and trans first start up to break in the cam the engine was vibrating like crazy further research revealed. 360 /390 does not use weights on the flex plate it's balanced by the crankshaft ??? After all that work the trans has to come back out and I ended up putting a Duralast flex plate what a hassle on a 69 F series truck .
I have worked my whole life in carpentry all thanks to my high-school. Most younger adults can't even read a tape measure
UTG explained the parts issue best in a vid about 2 weeks ago..( title- “ Blame it all on China “ )
Spoiler alert..
It’s not what ya think.
Rock on CaR guys 👌🏼⛽️
I just had this happen with misdrilled water pump holes.
Definitely repop sheet metal is no longer direct fit. No matter who I buy sheet metal from I always have to rework it to fit to the OEM body sheet metal.
Three words: Made in China
Even Weiand is made in China these days. Plenty of horror stories about warped or ill fitting parts, manifolds ect.
The drive to the lowest price is killing value. Circles back to the diminising value of the dollar. Sadly the 3 out of a hundred retuns are a cost companys accept in the minimim margins. In recent past ive had problems with rear brake caliper on a hard to find model. Ive had water pump making weird bearing noise, gasket set that obviously had been returned-because the location tabs didn't line up. Me cut them off and keep going. Kids do seek trades when possible and welding seems to be easiest of constrution that is offered here. Education system does poor job of exposure to world of work. I would love to have and operate a small machine shop.
Schools , it seems like , are more interested in indoctrinating rather than preparing for life . We had at least half a dozen trades being taught at my high school , you know , back in the olden days .
I was lucky my C4 flex was a 164 the same as the AOD 351W flex plate.Machine shops are a dying it's a parts change world.
PEROT WARNED US, 1992
My first time voting was for him. ✌️
And yes,he sure did.
Jeff, we have trade schools up here in Delaware, I went to one when I was in high school (Sussex Technical High School). There was lots of different trades, and they had one for Auto/Diesel and Auto Body which I was in 2000-04. My graduating class along with the ones above and below us absolutely loved classic cars and trucks. If you set foot in there it was like taking a step back into the early 70s. I had my vehicles in there (67 F250 Camper Special and 67 Galaxie 500 2 door Fastback), along with other classmate's cars, 67 Plymouth Belvedere, 67 Dodge Coronet, 70 Camaro, 64 Impala, 64 Chevelle, 72 Chevelle etc. We learned body work, welding, fabrication, painting, restoration and more. I wish there were more schools like this around to keep trades alive and going. It didn't cost anything to go to this school, you had to sign up to enroll as they only let so many kids in throughout the county. Once you get in at 9th grade, you're in through 12th. They are working to build a larger school soon to replace the existing school and to be able to accommodate more kids in our ridiculously growing population in my area (Sussex County, Delaware)
Hey, The best Chinese parts you can buy!
I agree with you 💯 percent. Prices are dramatically rising and quality is decreasing at a rapid rate. Thanks for another great video.
Well this is one way that they can push people into buying EV’s.
I think this is probably the difference between using English measurements and converting to metric.
I agree. I installed a brand new coil on my '73 Mach 1 351C. It would miss under load, and it almost ran me crazy. I took auto mechanics at my local community college starting back in the fall of 1974. I took all the classes, passed everything, and have a pretty good idea on how to work on this car. However, a friend of mine came and helped me out, and after going over everything I had done, complete tune up, compression test, testing voltage, etc., he went and came back with an old coil. I reminded him that the coil on the car was new, and he answered "I know." Anyway, we swapped out the coils, and the car ran great with no problems. The new coil I had bought was doing the same thing as the original old one I took off. Since then, I have heard from several people with older cars, having problems with bad new parts. Guess it's the world we live in now. Most everything made in China.
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you're right about shop classes in schools , back in the 70's and 80's we had woodshop , drafting , electronics and welding in our area of Louisiana now it is all gone . The space on campus where it used to be at was torn down and turned into a baseball field . Where I currently live in Texas they did away with shop completely which only taught welding and some light construction basics a few years ago . This year they passed a 20million dollar property tax millage to fund a huge new football stadium for the high school to replace the one they just built less than 10 years ago , not a single dime to bring back what was a very popular shop class program .
In san francisco there's only one auto shop in the 8 high schools
Same story with watchmakers. Rebuilding watches is a dying skill set. Lost art.
Kids do not care about trades. They prefer to work fast food and earn living wages, not improve themselves.
Chinese made part with sticker on saying made in usa im in australia thats biggest issue we have says certified part but is not
I'm shooting about 8 out of 10 parts I have ordered this year that are wrong or really poor quality and unusable.
China.....no inspector 21 there. We buy cheap and expect anything but garage. That's what we get.....
Hey there brother, we feel your here.. I had my too fare a share, of ill fitting, or just just dreadfully manufactured stuff, and that goes for everything we need, not just our hobby stuff. Mike Rowe has it right, we, and everyone needs to to start pushing for, and raising awareness of desperate need to emphasize the trades at elementary, and Highschool levels.. Sure some kids will be white collar material, though we can't get someone to fix yer toilet or clear a drain, or fix yer car without some ridiculous long wait, and then it's not done right, all the sudden, yer living in a "third" world nation... God bless ..
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