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Originally Posted by customfab4x4
And Ebay dispute resolution will absolutely side with me.
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They certainly will! I've been on the seller side of that and got screwed by a lying buyer, who was backed-up by eBay.
As for CPP parts quality: I bought a few things from them for a 55 Chevy car, and none of them were totally free from problems. Bought a "500" power steering box with "free" polished aluminum cap and chrome bolts packaged separately. The bolts were very soft--obviously Grade 1 or even worse. I called and spoke with a guy who gave me the classic response: "We've sold hundreds of those and have never heard that before." In other words, I'm lying or stupid, right? I ended up replacing them with Grade 5 or 8 bolts (or it might have been the metric equivalent).
Also bought a pair of upper control arms that were pretty nice, except for the ball joints, both of which had cracked dust boots! They did send me a new pair, but I sold them at a swap meet and used Moog parts instead! Funny thing is a friend of mine had the exact same problem!
Here is a life-threatening problem that CPP admitted to:
https://www.classicperform.com/parecall/ Hard to believe their QA department didn't catch this. A guy on 55-57 forum had a Pitman arm break as he was pulling into his driveway. Thank goodness he wasn't going around a street corner in traffic.
Had I kept the 55 Chevy, I probably would have replaced the steering box with a "real" Borgeson-Delphi 600 box. That's because I didn't feel like I could trust the imported internals to keep me on the road.
Here's a photo of the very soft socket-head bolts included with the aluminum cover. Sockets are somewhat rounded with even moderate torque.