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opinions ??
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No experience with that vendor's parts, but I have an equivalent fix on the ride in my sig and the alignment is as steady as a rock. OTOH, I don't recall seeing any complaints about that supplier.
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what part are you after? need more input
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I assumed that OP was referring to
tho' I'm certain Daze's engineering addresses the same concern...
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oh the offset shaft elimination kit, I forgot about that. I am so glad Ford didn't make that "brilliant upgrade" until after 62. And BTW that company is over charging IMHO $10 for hardware and materials and maybe $50 worth of machining for almost $300. I never understood why the aftermarket had to be so greedy. All the products I make and sell are at a fair price, I am well below the market average but I still make good money.
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Yes Rare Parts clearly has amazing gross margins...
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oh the offset shaft elimination kit, I forgot about that. I am so glad Ford didn't make that "brilliant upgrade" until after 62. And BTW that company is over charging IMHO $10 for hardware and materials and maybe $50 worth of machining for almost $300. I never understood why the aftermarket had to be so greedy. All the products I make and sell are at a fair price, I am well below the market average but I still make good money.
Do you offer the same offset shaft elimination kit ???
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I don't offer the kit. All the part sI sell were developed for my own vehicles and since my 62 didn't need them I have never put together a set, however there is lots of info online where people have made their own using OEM parts a bolt and some spacers. If you yahoo "offset eliminators galaxie" and then click on images tones of homemade options come up.
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What a ripoff (I'm talking about the Rare Parts Amazon listing) for parts that you could replicate for around $5 at the local hardware store (minus the bushings). I need to start replicating these so called "kits" and selling them for $80. I would make a huge profit and still save the people that bought them a LOT of money.
Let's see. Besides the offset and centered bushing, looks like you have a couple of grade 8 long shank bolts, washers, nuts, and two what appears to be hollow tubes. That would total somewhere around $2.36 at Ace Hardware. Their target profit margin must be somewhere around 10,000%. So that must make the bushings worth somewhere around......I think everyone is smellin' what I'm steppin' in.
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