Chassis Part Pricing
Guest
Posts: n/a
Chassis Part Pricing
My '91 F-150's steering has been wandering, requiring constant driver (that's me) input, and going all over the road anyway.
After repacking and setting the wheel bearings and installing a Flaming River intermediate steering column, I reluctantly determined that yes, after 170,000 miles or so, I was going to have do a steering linkage replacement.
There are six components involved here: 2-outer tie rod ends, 2-adjusting sleeves, and 2-inner tie rod ends which also double as drag links in Ford's Haltenberger system.
Ford's price on these six pieces was well over $400.00, establishing the high end of the price spectrum; J.C. Whitney's was a little over $120.00, defining the low end (a call to their Tech line asking brand name and origin was answered, (verbatim) "Foreign parts distributors."
'Nuff said. NAPA came in at $420.00, made by DANA. 4Wheel Parts Wholesalers were around $410.00, mfg. by Moog. A small Carquest in my neighborhood that caters to a large assortment of small repair shops came in at $312.98, (Moog), including front bearing seals and a jug of antifreeze. I gave 'em cash.
It pays to shop, and Carquest gave me a computer printout estimate of those Moog parts w/price and part number. 4Wheel Parts Wholesalers, BEWARE! I know you have a 10% off best price policy, and I just bet there is somebody out there willing to drive across town and (loosely paraphrased from WWF's "Rock") stick this pricing up your candy ...
Ed
After repacking and setting the wheel bearings and installing a Flaming River intermediate steering column, I reluctantly determined that yes, after 170,000 miles or so, I was going to have do a steering linkage replacement.
There are six components involved here: 2-outer tie rod ends, 2-adjusting sleeves, and 2-inner tie rod ends which also double as drag links in Ford's Haltenberger system.
Ford's price on these six pieces was well over $400.00, establishing the high end of the price spectrum; J.C. Whitney's was a little over $120.00, defining the low end (a call to their Tech line asking brand name and origin was answered, (verbatim) "Foreign parts distributors."
'Nuff said. NAPA came in at $420.00, made by DANA. 4Wheel Parts Wholesalers were around $410.00, mfg. by Moog. A small Carquest in my neighborhood that caters to a large assortment of small repair shops came in at $312.98, (Moog), including front bearing seals and a jug of antifreeze. I gave 'em cash.
It pays to shop, and Carquest gave me a computer printout estimate of those Moog parts w/price and part number. 4Wheel Parts Wholesalers, BEWARE! I know you have a 10% off best price policy, and I just bet there is somebody out there willing to drive across town and (loosely paraphrased from WWF's "Rock") stick this pricing up your candy ...
Ed
