O'reilly Auto rebuilt carb troubles

[Side]

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.

[Don's Hot Rods]

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

[treb11]

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.

[57Custom300]

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.

[bobss396]

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

[1950coronet600hp]

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

[1950coronet600hp]

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..

[GirchyGirchy]

Send it to SMI instead. You get what you pay for.

[junkyardjeff]

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.

[eugene vik]

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

[Don's Hot Rods]

Originally Posted by eugene vik

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

[JJK]

Originally Posted by Side

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.

Holley or Tomco but mainly Holley.

[el caballo loco]

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.

[bobj49f2]

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.

[bobj49f2]

Originally Posted by el caballo loco

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.

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.

[ntxcustoms]

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?

[porknbeaner]

Originally Posted by Side

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 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.

[Side]

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.

[bobj49f2]

Side, right their make O'reilly's a winner. I doubt the nimrods in my local Advance would do that for me.

[bobj49f2]

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.