Another thing to consider. How many carb kits do you suppose they sell, nation wide, in the US per year? Not all that many. And just how many for a particular carb? How about for a carb that they only made a couple of million at most 50, 60 or 70 years ago? What maybe a couple of thousand? At best? If made in the US they would not make a bunch and warehouse them, cost too much as they pay property taxes and know to a penny what each Square inch cost plus for inventory control all items have to be counted. And the cost of setting up to run of a thousand or so kits then switching a line over is high too. So that means taking the manufacturing off shore just to provide those kits to the dwindling market. Now with those kits being available on line the parts store has to compete for the sale. Now despite conventional wisdom you can get well may stuff out of China. But the buyer has to have a contract with a good company with close specifications. Looking for the cheapest supplier and specs go out the window. Then look at the market here. Bunch of old tightwads wanting the cheapest parts available. So many suppliers look for the cheapest route and wind up with junk kits.
Now I don't know if NAPA still markets the Echlin carb kits. Those use to be pretty good. The last time I bought a kit from NAPA it was the same one available from Tractor Supply Co. I was told that NAPA no longer sells a carb kit for a Ford N series tractor under a NAPA name. They had in fact ordered it from the TISCO catalog.
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