[DeTomaso] Throttle cable length problem

[steve at snclocks.com]

Much like the vendor who decided the side windows needed to be flatter, less curve.  Pity they would then no work.  

Stephen Nelson

-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> On Behalf Of Larry Finch via DeTomaso
Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 8:26 AM
To: Email List Address For Posting <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Throttle cable length problem

Bud and all,

WHEN A VENDOR HAS A REPRODUCTION PART MANUFACTURED, IT DOESN’T COST ANY MORE NOR TAKE MORE TIME TO MANUFACTURE A ...CORRECT... REPRODUCTION. 
 
YES, I’m yelling. 

I have now heard from another owner who found the exact same problem with the throttle cable he purchased from the same vendor. 

He solved the problem by moving the center tunnel mounting bracket. So, 30 years from now when the then current owner of that Pantera needs to replace his throttle cable, he will find, should he actually get one properly re-produced, that the proper cable will not fit because the previous owner made modifications in order to install an incorrectly reproduced part. 

This. Is. Wrong. 

In Bud’s shared experience, he went to the extra expense necessary to make expensive stub axles actually function as they should.

Some years ago when I purchased a set of headers from a vendor I had to pay my local machine shop $100  to blanchard grind the three-eights inch thick header flanges so they were actually flat enough to seal. My polite letter to the vendor, sharing the shortcomings of his product, wherein I suggested he might want to check his stock and/or contact his fabricator, went unanswered. 

For too long I have heard we should be thankful that we have any vendors at all. And the De Tomaso community seems to have accepted a philosophy that if we can ...make... it work, then that is satisfactory. Really?

I am personally done with that philosophy. 

>From now on, if it is wrong then I will demand a full refund, to include all shipping expenses, and I will share my full experience with my fellow owners so they do not have to deal with the same issue from a vendor that doesn’t understand the definition of “bolt-in reproduction.”

I’ve decided that this issue really requires loyalty to my fellow owners, not loyalty to a vendor. 

And, IMHO, all of you should consider doing the same. 

Larry 



Sent from me using a magic, handheld electronic gizmo. 

> On May 9, 2020, at 5:42 AM, B Hower <b.hower3400 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> When I had the axle to bearing miss fit with axles from a vendor, I called another and he measured his same style axles and told me the diameters. Turned out to measure same as what I had ( this was on second go around with first vendor ). So I thanked him and had my new bad axles sent out for hard chrome plating an ground to my specs.
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> Bud #3400 ( Drive it like there is no tomorrow -- for there may not be ! )
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