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- From: dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye )
- Subject: Re: brake bleeding tools from JC Whitney
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.203303.21178@i88.isc.com>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:33:03 GMT
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- In article <9212082230.AA26298@magnusug.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Steven J Orlin <sorlin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> writes:
- >In article <1992Dec8.210202.18536@adobe.com> you write:
- >>I saw that JC Whitney sells brake bleeding tools. Are these
- >>reasonable quality? I haven't seen such tools in the local
- >>Grand Auto/Kragen stores although I haven't really looked
- >>that hard. I hate those places because things are hard to
- >>find and just paying for your purchase takes too long.
- >>Mail order looks pretty attractive for this reason.
- >>
- >>--
- >>My opinions are my own.
- >>
- >
- >I have been pleased with many things I have bought from JC Whitney; however,
- >I would never buy tools from them----unless they were a 'one use in a lifetime'
- >tool and I couldn't find it any where else.
- >
- >Besides, look at the prices in JC Whitney, and then go look in a store.
- >somethings wrong here.
-
-
- It helps to be in chicago and be able to visit their store.
- Their tools, like their parts, are a crapshoot at best. Although
- their catalogs don't mention it, their suspension stuff is AADCO
- ($18 for a sway bar link kit that comes with rubber and urethane bushings,
- pre-load springs and two different sized rods!), they sell the Weber
- 32/36 downdraft carb as a "progressive two barrel", even Kaimae Air dams.
- As far as tools go, a friend of mine bought a beautiful pair of safety
- wire pliars for $26 (same manufacturer as some catalog tool places
- sell for $60).
-
- --Ken
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