The days are numbered
Reply #3 –
Yeah it's getting aggravating. I've simply been stocking up all sorts of shiznit. I have several AOD VB gaskets, I have a few MAP sensors...'stat housing gaskets, intake, head...blah blah.....what the hell else can you do? And worse, I have more faith in used OEM parts than I do in aftermarket new. So much garbage that was made by a company run by yet more complacent management that hasn't a real care in the world.
Where I work, we're a "state of the art semiconductor research facility" and we have plenty of single-path machines that are old as dirt as far as the industry goes..and it's the same thing. We're just down for days even weeks sometimes if the right piece breaks. It's just funny. Larger scale, but same proportions I guess. Who really wants to spend hundreds if not thousands on every possible spare part that you don't KNOW you'll need....?