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ataraxia
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 Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 12:29 pm Post subject: Re: beware of EMPI stock rocker arm kits |
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| gringoloco2000 wrote: |
| The problem I have with EMPI is that you have so many inconsistencies in quality across the products that they sell. |
It really is rolling the dice with them -
Spring plates were garbage - uneven cuts, lumpy welds, inconsistent plating.
Stub axles and IRS axles, though, very nice. Super clean splines, nice machining and great threads. Went together like expected.
I've avoided everything else EMPI. |
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Zundfolge1432 
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: beware of EMPI stock rocker arm kits |
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| The off-road swing axle boots that came in red, blue or yellow were actually pretty good but I haven’t bought those in years. Perhaps the bean counters figured out a way to cheapen these up as well. Empi used to chrome plate German sheet metal and present this as dress up kits but that was decades ago. Here’s the ultimate rip off by empi, they stole the Pan Am airline logo and put their name on it. Pan Am didn’t even care. Now Pan Am is gone but empi is still around like a stale fart in an elevator. |
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raygreenwood
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Joined: November 24, 2008
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Location: Oklahoma City
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2021 10:19 pm Post subject: Re: beware of EMPI stock rocker arm kits |
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| Zundfolge1432 wrote: |
| The off-road swing axle boots that came in red, blue or yellow were actually pretty good but I haven’t bought those in years. Perhaps the bean counters figured out a way to cheapen these up as well. Empi used to chrome plate German sheet metal and present this as dress up kits but that was decades ago. Here’s the ultimate rip off by empi, they stole the Pan Am airline logo and put their name on it. Pan Am didn’t even care. Now Pan Am is gone but empi is still around like a stale fart in an elevator. |
Yep...I think Pan Am every time I see the logo...but I did a search a few years ago (I have collected a few Pan Am trinkets).....and MANY companies have stolen the Pan Am "Globe". They mainly went after travel agencies. The rest....no one even knew about comparatively. Ray |
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spencerfvee
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 4:10 pm Post subject: Re: beware of EMPI stock rocker arm kits and lash caps |
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| i just checked my motor and a friends motor after reading ohio toms post . and sure enought the lash caps were beat out on both motors . it realy up sets me that EMPI could have cost me a motor and my friends motor shame on EMPI for selling junk spencerfvee |
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Splitdog
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Joined: February 16, 2004
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Location: Planet VW
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 4:41 pm Post subject: Re: beware of EMPI stock rocker arm kits and lash caps |
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Why are you guys bagging on EMPI? No one makes ill-fitting, thin chrome tins better than them.
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spencerfvee
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 6:12 am Post subject: Re: beware of EMPI stock rocker arm kits and lash caps |
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| Splitdog wrote: |
| Why are you guys bagging on EMPI? No one makes ill-fitting, thin chrome tins better than them. |
...................................................................................................................you dont know how true that is . china played a big joke on EMPI when they made chrome tins . spencerfvee |
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