Does anybody know who rebuilds the carbs for O'reilly Auto Parts? I'd like to place a call to them so that I can rant about having to return carb number 3.the first one leaked out of the throttle shaft, second one was missing the accelerator weight and the third Autolite 1100 has a bent idle mixture screw that ruined the threads. After this O'reily parts are off my list.
I know only too well how you feel. I had 3 power steering pumps that I bought from AutoZone fail on my daily driver. One lasted a week, the second one lasted a month, and the last one died in 15 minutes. I bought a Delco brand from a Delco distributor and it is still on the car and working fine. I am done with AutoZone parts and will only buy oil and wax there any more. Duralast should be called "Don't Last". I also have their front disc pads on the same car and they dust so bad I have to clean my polished wheels every week or so. I guess O'Reillys isn't much better, from your tale. Don
do you speak Chinese? or Spanish? I bought a "rebuilt" water pump for my DD with a 4.7 Dodge motor. When I tried dto install the fan, the threads weren't even machined onto the shaft to attach it. It was from NAPA too, I was EXTREMELY pissed 'cuz I had to put the old pump back on and drive back to return it.
Getting rebuilt parts from anywhere has always been a crap shoot. When I worked at dealers guys wanted to use independent rebuilt parts. If I worked at an independent shop they wanted a rebuilt from a dealer. Usually the same results. You would get bad ones from both places.
I've had such shitty luck with parts house carbs that I either do it myself, buy a new one or have a local carb shop do them. I don't piss around with Q-Jets since my track record is so poor with them. My local shop does a great job on them for a fair price. Bob
lets see a1 cardone i think still remanns the carbs, I think supplies are getting thin due to the fact that the last carb rolled off the line in 91, website says tomco, but from my experience i wanna say its someone else, but the fact of the matter is they all get their remanufactured parts from the same companies no matter who's sign is on the building, it used to be different but now its all the same, I worked 6-8 months at oreilleys, and didn't have much problems with parts coming back, but you do get a bad run every once in a while, your best bet is get a good core and do it yourself... unless its some weirdo carb but then good luck finding one already rebuilt
actually o'reillys parts are of a slightly higher grade, theres alot more made in mexico / usa parts then autozone, and i have worked for both companies..
I would avoid rebuilt carbs at all costs,when I was in the Oldsmobile Club of America someone did a article about reman carbs in the newsletter that was very interesting. What the article said is all carbs of the same design got taken apart and thrown in a bin so when done you get a miss matched carb,lets say you have a Rochester 2 bbl which looks identical for a few motors but each carb was designed for a certain size motor only and lets say you ordered one for a 350 but could end up with one with the internal passages designed for a 305 making it not run right. A friend bought a 78 ford truck with one of those rebuilt carbs on a 351-M and I could never get it to run right thinking it was a carb originally designed for a 302,it would run but did not have the power it should have so please have a local carb shop rebuild the carb before buying a reman from the parts stores. It might cost more money but you wont have the headaches of trying to get a miss matched carb to run right.
dont anyone rebuild heir own shit anymore???? seince 1963 i do my own carbs, alternators and starters and they seem to work a lot better than what you buy i dont feel sorry for people who buy crap then whine
The point is, you do not expect to be buying crap when you go to one of the four major auto parts companies. You only have so many choices of places to shop, so if you can't find good parts in one of these stores where do you go? It was generally accepted that NAPA carried slightly better parts, but more and more I am seeing them carrying offshore parts, probably to remain competitive, and even their employees complain about that fact when I am in there. Don
NAPA... for anything with moving parts! I've learned over and over again, the cheap chainstore parts have a warranty cuz you're gonna NEED it.
Junkyardjeff, same exact procedure at a local company I toured a few years back that rebuilt Detroit diesel engine. Since Detroit stopped building this certain model of engine years before but were still in use this company would buy all the engines they could from whatever source they could find and have them shipped in by the truck load. Each engine was put on a conveyor and sent down the line where low cost labor pulled specific parts off and set them into a wire mess basket. Each part was taken to another specific part of the plant to be reconditioned and then shelved to be pulled off and used to build an reconditioned engine. It was very unlikely that any engine block ever received the parts it came in with.
I've had issues with some parts I've bought at the McParts stores and have gotten hassles when I try to return them. It seems the older guys working there are the hardest to deal with, at least in my experience. I don't know if they're just pissed because they end up working at McParts or what. The younger guys don't care and will just call over whoever is manager for the day and let him deal with it.
Seems that all rebuilt carbs from the chain stores have foam floats. They take a cast of the brass floats then stick the lever into it and inject it with foam that has a micro thin coating on it. Problem is, the coating cracks and lets the foam fill with gas which then makes the carbs flood no matter what you do. Better to rebuild yourself or send it to a HAMB member?
I dunno who rebuilds them but it couldn't cost much more to call Tailand or China than it did to buy the cheapo carb. Get a carb that you think needs rebuilding and either send it to me or carbking (carbking being your better bet). It won't cost you any more to have it done by someone who cares than to buy cheap offshore junk.
Ok. O'reilly's kind of redeemed themselves. I was out of town when my carb puked and the store in Mustang,Ok tracked down my old carb and is sending it to me in Amarillo. Lesson learned I guess.
Side, right their make O'reilly's a winner. I doubt the nimrods in my local Advance would do that for me.
Let me slightly rescind my above praise for O'reillys. I just got off the phone with one of thier store while trying to varify they had the carb kit I am looking for. Their web site said this one store in my area has the part, it's 30 miles away but I have to make a delivery in the area this afternoon so I figure I could swing by and get it. The site said to varify with the store that they had it. I called and first got a person with a strong accent that couldn't comprehend the number I gave him that I got from their web site. He then tried to look up the car, a '53 Ford on their computer system, we all know how well that usually works. He was having troubles and the phone went dead. I called back and the second time I got another person with a different but equally strong accent. At this this guy got the number when I read it back to him very slowly. I finally was able to arrange them to save it for me so I can pick it up this afternoon. P.S. I was going to buy the same part from NAPA but they wanted $10 more and I'm using this on an engine I am going to sell so I don't want to spend any more $$ than I have to. If this was one of my trucks I'd be on my way to NAPA.
I've got the same issue on my daily driver. Two failed power steering pumps from O'Ratleys in the last year, and the third one is now getting noisy after the fluid warms up a bit. And it's a REAL pain in the ass to change the power steering pump on a '94 Roadmaster. Pissed off doesn't quite describe how I feel about it!
I hate to buy something as well, having know how to fix most things. But at times my time is worth more than me fixing it myself. I try to only use local rebuilders and bring them MY core, which wards off many evils. Bob
I second sending it to Sean Murphy Induction --> http://www.smicarburetor.com/ The carb is rebuilt to the specs of YOUR car!! It is not some generic rebuild,
Doesn't NAPA stand for No Auto Parts Available? My dad had an 83 Ford F-150 and a caliper stuck. He took it with him to NAPA to get a new one. He called me to stop after work because he couldn't get the new one on. I found that it was slightly too long to get the wedge in. We went to NAPA to check it against his old one and the old one was 1/8" shorter. The guy claimed it was the correct part and showed me on the computer. It said all, except 2 wheel drive and my dad's was 2 wheel drive. They didn't stock the one for 2 wheel drive. We had to go to Crown auto to get one.
If I don't rebuild it myself, I take mine to Rick at "The Carburetor Shop" in Midwest City, OK. His dad worked for the guy who opened the shop, then bought Clyde out. Rick started working there in high school and now his son Taylor is working there. I like being able to support a local family owned business.
Your NAPA outlet sucks! : ) The one here is locally owned by the same folks for as long as i can remember. grizzled old dudes behind the counter who KNOW the parts list continues back into the old books, a machine shop AND a willingness to actually spend some time helpin a guy in need of obscure junk. I'm startin to feel real lucky they're around..
Rebuilding your own stuff can still done...IF you can find anyone who stocks parts / kits,..... (The "dunk cans" of carb cleaner were banned years ago....) Even when buying a new item..... "New" only means "Shiny",.....So you can still get a bad one.... 4TTRUK
I have to say NAPA really has disappointed me this month. In the past I've purchased suspension parts for my Shoebox there, no problem. This month, I had a need for a particular throwout bearing for a '62 Chevrolet truck. NAPA informed me that nobody makes it and it's not available at any price. I called Rockauto and they had it for me in two days. I went back to the NAPA on a whim to see if they could get suspension parts for the Shoebox, and the lady said there was nothing available through NAPA in the computer. Has NAPA simply stopped offering parts for older vehicles? I hope they are not going to specialize in the Honda Accord water pump business now...
You should talk with "Carb King" here on the HAMB and see what he can do for you. Here is his website: http://www.thecarburetorshop.com/
A1 Cardone... what a bunch of crap. I used to work at the Grand Auto warehouse. they had a section where all the cores and rejects came back from the stores. seems like there were more defective "rebuilt" items coming back than cores sometimes. doesn't matter what it was,,, carbs, starters, alternators. it was all crap. I'm sure where ever they rebuild these things they have to do so many an hour, and since they are using low paid labor, they could give a shit about a few parts that didn't make it back into the part being rebuilt, they just had to do X parts per hour.
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