When will this truck parts shortage end?

Once the war gets going it will be worse.

 

Likely never. They figured out they can charge sky high prices and people pay them because the alternitive is to go bankrupt or risk a visit from the EPA with a fat fine.

 

It will get worse.
Now there is an average of 400,000 people retiring every year more than new people coming into the workforce. And it is accelerating.
Demographics say it won’t be back in balance until 2042.
Or until the manufacturers quit manufacturing parts overseas and start making them in North America again ( maybe five years).

 

If it is an old truck just order all the hoses now so you have them. I would do that with a lot of stuff if I owned old.

 

I am ordering all kinds of parts to warehouse, putting in a lot of money to have a stock of parts because the dealers are telling me that they are not going to get some emissions parts or the suppliers are allocated a limited amount of parts to each dealer.

 

Can you not have this hose built locally?

 

Thats bs, theyre having a line made by a specific vendor with crummy turnaround, just as @AModelCat said have it made in an hr while you wait at a hydraulic hose place.

OR just put a blockoff plate on it, theyre cheap, my trans cooler was bad so when i swapped the trans in dec, i did a blockoff till i could buy a new cooler, install and measure lines.

 

2-3 weeks on a power steering pump for a 2010 KW T660.

 

Not seeing much of a parts shortage as their is a parts price increase that has went sky high..