Wow, good call.
That's a shame for a brand new Raybestos part!
Yeah, but the name is starting to remind me of an ancient failed dynasty run by the evil and reviled "
Raybestos the Imported" that at one time was heaped with honors, yet eventually became just like everyone else.
In other words, "worthless and weak" as Eric Marmelarde used to say.
;D
We felt the same disappointment when we found out that the Raybestos brand bearing hubs we paid extra for to include in our front disc brake kits, turned out to be poorly machined with splines to shallow to accept any but the stock original Dana/Spicer locking mechanisms! If you had Warn, Superwinch, MileMarker or any other brand, you were just out of luck.
Even the most tried-and-true US companies have to import in order to keep prices down where we the consumer will buy and still make a traditional profit. And for some reason don't seem to be willing, or able to communicate the engineering and production specs well enough to the overseas factory reps. Apparently we can have "good" AND "cheap" but we have to choose which one.
Maybe parts are so cheap to make and profits so high in some cases, that the companies don't care about high return numbers. It's now just part of the business, a writeoff and who cares if low volume customers with older out-of-production vehicles can't get good parts.
Or something along those lines...%)
Paul
