Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Rear Tail Shaft Seal

[Luke Wardwell <horneteer2@xxxxxxxxx>]

CQ has warehouses all over the nation. We get oddball
parts for customers from all over. Usually within
three days. My job is to drive to our warehouse in
Bangor ME every day for parts we don't have. They
actually had an upper radiator hose for my car there
that I needed with the new rad. Believe me I like the
little guy better than the big guys, I just so happen
to work for one. CQ just bought out a small chain in
Virginia and they sent me and some other guys there
for the changeover. I'll just call where I work CQ I
see that name enough every day.

--- AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Luke I find that the non-chain stores have more
> outlets for parts over
> the chain stores. I see people on the AMX files and
> other groups that
> have trouble getting the same parts I usually buy
> right over the
> counter. Almost all of them only have chain stores
> in their area. I was
> told that chain stores only get parts from regional
> warehouses and not
> from all over the country. My parts store has 3 huge
> independent
> warehouses besides their own and their second store
> within an hour of
> each other getting deliveries back and forth twice a
> day. And they are
> not above calling the factory for a part. Also a lot
> of times there are
> parts in these warehouses for AMC's that have sat on
> the shelf for years
> and making a phone call finds them. Some one
> suggested a while back that
> I should take orders and buy the parts people can't
> get in other parts
> of the country and add on a shipping and handling
> charge. I have done
> this a few times over the years but only for close
> friends. 
> "Doc"
> 
> > To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: Luke Wardwell <horneteer2@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 15:10:48 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Rear Tail Shaft Seal
> 
> I was just wondering what your experience was.
> Thanks
> for the input. There is a non chain parts store up
> the
> hill from where I work that I have had good
> experience
> with. I like supporting the little guy. In fact I
> got
> a differential cover gasket at that store that we
> didnt have where I work. It's sad how quickly
> customer
> want things nowadays. They don't seem to have time
> for
> us to look for parts in a book. 
> 
> --- AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Luke my experience with chain stores is poor. Most
> > of them can't or
> > don't know how or are too lazy to find a part if
> it
> > is not listed on a
> > computer screen. Never mind what a cross over part
> > no# book is. There
> > are a lot of parts from different cars that all
> > interchange. I have 71
> > Torino gas shocks in the front of my yellow 74
> > Hatchback . When Autozone
> > said that an idler arm was no longer available for
> > my car my local
> > non-chain store had one for me in 3 days right
> from
> > the factory in
> > Tennessee. I could go on and on about the other
> bad
> > experiences over the
> > years with all of the chain stores. I got to the
> > point that I only go to
> > a chain store for a floor mat or a door edge
> > molding, my local non-chain
> > store gets me all the parts I need including a new
> > 21 gallon gas tank
> > and the straps for my orange Hornet. The only
> thing
> > they couldn't get
> > was a fuel gauge sender for the tank. That I got a
> > NOS one from Kennedy
> > American. The computer age has left most people
> not
> > knowing how to use
> > their brain. Shoes and sneakers closing with
> velcro
> > so now they can't
> > tie a shoe lace, calculators allowed in schools to
> > take math tests with
> > so they can't add or subtract or multiply without
> > one, mechanics who
> > can't trouble shoot a car and repair it unless a
> > machine tells them
> > what's wrong with it. I'll keep my old dependable
> > cars and old
> > dependable brain and my non-chain auto parts store
> > that I have delt with
> > for 21 years.  
> > "Doc"
> > 
> > > To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > From: Luke Wardwell <horneteer2@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:59:16 -0700 (PDT)
> > Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Rear Tail Shaft
> Seal
> > 
> > Hey Doc, I was just wondering if you didn't like 
> > "chain" parts stores.  I work at one and I know
> what
> > those books are for. Hey I found a new radiator
> for
> > my
> > Hornet in one of those books. I know how big
> chains
> > are impersonal, I just would like to say where I
> > work
> > is different. I had my pinion seal replaced 5
> years
> > ago, I think my mechanic found one at  CarQuest.
> Go
> > find a place you can trust and stick to it.       
>  
> >  
> >                        Luke
> > 
> > --- AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > If you are loosing that much oil you also have
> bad
> > > bearings in the
> > > carrier. I would suggest you find a non-chain
> auto
> > > parts store as the
> > > seal and bearings are almost over the counter
> > parts
> > > here in N.Y. or from
> > > numerous AMC venders and the crush sleeve is
> > > available from the Jeep
> > > people. Did all the carrier bearings and seals
> and
> > > axel bearings and
> > > seals in my yellow car 2 years ago. Luckily my
> > > non-chain store parts man
> > > can read a paper parts book and will not take no
> > for
> > > an answer if the
> > > computer says so.
> > > "Doc"
> > > 
> > > > To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > From: "cindylee_me2000"
> > <cindylee_me2000@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:51:34 -0000
> > > Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Rear Tail Shaft Seal
> > > 
> > > I have a 1975 Gremlin it is leaking oil from the
> > > rearend and I need a 
> > > seal very badly,I am loosing a quart of oil a
> day.
> > I
> > > live in the St. 
> > > Louis area. Can anyone give me some idea where I
> > can
> > > find one. The 
> > > local parts stores claim they don't make them
> > > anymore.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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