[AT] Tractor hauler product needed, probably doesn't exist

[rdhaskell at juno.com]

 Hi Cecil.
Have you tried Egge Obsolete Engine Parts?  1-800-866-EGGE.  The last
time I checked they had patterns for a lot of pistons and cast their own.

Ron Haskell
rdhaskell at juno.com
Riverside, California USA
http://picasaweb.google.com/RonHaskell

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:41:43 -0600 Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
writes:
> Farmer:
> No use anymore trying to start up a new product.  Unless you can 
> guarantee an entire shipping container full from China, than it 
> won't be 
> manufactured in the USA....   I havfe found this out the hard way 
> with 
> older engines I try to rebuild.  I have hit a brick wall with a 
> QXLD5 
> hercules..   One piston broke after a re ring job and I have to buy 
> an 
> entire set of pistons.  I have $1500 in this generator and anothe 
> $500 
> in parts and it is about to go to the scrapyard because I am so 
> disgusted with trying to repair it.  It is the unit from hell! 
> definitely.  I have spent nearly 40 hours researching piston 
> suppliers 
> on the net and in the old catalogs I have.  Federal Mogul bought out 
> all 
> the suppliers years ago. and no ne is left in the US....
> 
> A young friend is traveling to France with an engineering group to 
> look 
> at the JD factory in France as there is nothing to look at in the 
> US...
> 
> The US gov't is going to  ail out the Big three so that they can 
> send 
> more money overseas through Federal Mogul, their largest supplier of 
> 
> parts....
> 
> I have had enough and am ready to sell out.  I spend so much time 
> hunting parts that I can never get anything done....
> 
> Cecil in OKla
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