IN LIFE LITTLE THINGS
“ Sometimes, said Pooh, said Pooh, the smallest things the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. — A.A. Milne
A nyone who’s ever seen a bolt sucked through an intake, found a misfire caused by incorrect plug gap or chased down a few milliamps’ worth of parasitic draw can tell you that little things matter. In fact, in those situations, they matter a lot . Seemingly tiny items can have enormous effects upon automotive systems—bad and good alike. On a brighter note than those three scenarios, we make a few small OE FIX items that could fit easily into a brown paper lunch bag but pack a real big service punch. For example, some of our bespoke battery terminal hardware kits (P/N 926- 875, 926-882) are tiny items, yet on a Saturday afternoon, they may be the pieces that save a customer the cost of a weekend rental. We make a shifter microswitch (P/N 905-026), which, as the name may tell you, is quite small. Also small: the price and the amount of time you’d need to install in a Ford truck, the vehicle in which they fail. The dealer solution is a new gearshift lever. In a similar vein, did you know we make power seat gears? Our 924-074 is an itty-bitty little thing, but it’s usually the item that goes south in many Nissan Maximas. Many salvage yards have been
picked clean, because Nissan only sells the entire adjuster. At the time of this writing, it’s got a list price approaching two grand. We think that’s pretty big. And some of our other small parts knock down big labor times and turn those tiny enough to tuck into a pocket, too. Take our 904-223 dipstick flange repair kit. Made for the Ford 7.3L diesel, this kit helps replace an engine oil dipstick flange seal that’s begun to leak. Normally this job requires pulling the engine, but our kit can be installed in under half an hour with the engine in situ. Small part. Big labor-saver. 917-954 is a real treat, too. A timing chain tensioner guide bolt for Ecotec 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4L engines, this piece can serve as a preventative measure as well as a repair item. When the original timing chain guide bolt shears (they are a bit undersized for the task at hand), this repair bolt allows the access plug in the casting to serve as a new, much beefier bolt retainer. It sure beats pulling the cylinder head—instead, this repair can be made in less than an hour. Big value come in small packages. Small, orange packages.
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