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Originally Posted by steve25
In my line of daily work we have had a fair amount of gear that we have made by the red communist arrive with either defective or with a bad issue that we do not find out about until it has got into customer hands.
One time a cheaper inferior major part was used and we had replace these two parts in 800 units before we sold any more.
In a more recent occurrence the red communist factory that made the item of gear for us made a production change in a circuit board without telling us nor getting
our approval.
And that ended up with us having to disassemble 1100 items of gear to implement a correction.
Just recently we got to the other side of another production mess that took near 4 months to straighten out.
This is all on gear that the company I work for own the production and design rights on just to be clear.
And I could give plenty more examples.
If you get anything automotive that’s been made in China and it has been assembled there and you do not take it apart to check it out then I am not the least bit surprised that there are the failure rates taking place that have been reported.
If that black metallic **** that came out of those lifters was not found then the whole engine could have been lost.
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I think it's important to point out here that the lifters Tim was running are made here in the USA.
Morel lifters are primarily made here and in Mexico.
We have quality issues all over the place, regardless of the location of manufacture. China can produce really good products, the USA can produce really ****ty products. It's not either or.
It's definitely a good idea to check every component these days. With my recent engine build, I pad quite a bit extra to have their race prep engine assembly done, instead of basic machining and assembly. Hopefully I got my money's worth on that.