made in germany to chinese specs

[beetlemandan]

bought a new pulley for my generator from cip cause mine was og and was getting a little ugly. caption said it was german made to oe quality specs. here it is 300 miles later. also answered that question "what is that weird rattle when i crack the throttle?" also let it be known that i DON"T BLAME cip for this one. maybe this pulley is meant for nice stock single ports

[notchback]

How many shims did you have installed with the pulley???

[Mirko]

Don't blame China or CIP1 blame yourself... you clearly do NOT know how to install and adjust a shim stack on a stock pulley

bought a new pulley for my generator from cip cause mine was og and was getting a little ugly. caption said it was german made to oe quality specs. here it is 300 miles later. also answered that question "what is that weird rattle when i crack the throttle?" also let it be known that i DON"T BLAME cip for this one. maybe this pulley is meant for nice stock single ports

[beetlemandan]

you take shims out till you see the crank pulley start to bend under the strain and hear the generator bushings groan and scour right?

[berliner]

I got one of those,too!Broke in the same place and made an ugly noise(yes it was adjusted correctly)The way they're held together is minimal.Mine also lasted about 300 miles.Original german pulley in there now.

[beetlemandan]

i noticed today that the factory pulley has a huge waist around the machined hub. so that the center hub takes all the load from the belt and shims, not the puny 4 spot welds. i noticed on where mine broke, it just spun off, the shims were still pushing on the hub.

[Billyisgr8]

Thats frustrating Dan

The whole made in USA, Germany, Canada or whatever use to be good parts made in country is a wash now.  In Canada 51% of the cost of the product only has to be made in Canada.  Guess what, buy the part for $2.00 canadian, which is the total cost to get it to Canada including shipping, brokerage, import fees, put it in a carboard box that was made in Canada which cost $0.70 to buy cdn  and the labour to put it in a cdn box $1.00, and voila....now you have a made in Canada part sold as made in canada and completely complies with Canadian regulations governing " made in Canada".  Absolute a joke period.  I do not believe one word of any made in whatever country ( only applies to the countries that in the past had well made good tolerances)  until I actually see, compare, and try it.  I have opted to buy used parts so many times over new just because I know the old used part is good.

Kevin

[neil68]

Check out the Made in China website and you'll see quotes like this:

"We Sell only Parts Made in China, like Bruck Germany & JL Germany.
Call us, we will sell you a Part Made in China at 1/3 rd of German Brands like Febi, Meyle etc."