When will this truck parts shortage end?

I get all my hoses made at a local Pirtek

 

If government wouldn't print money and give it out left and right we'd be in a better shape. Now everyone expects free money and doesn't want to work.

 

Hey now, Ive never *WANTED* to work, I also expect money... when i work for it though

 

no reason to shop at dealers for parts .. Way to many aftermarkets out there

 

There’s not an EGR cooler in North America for a DD16 and no eta from Detroit.
Had to buy an aftermarket one.

 

Last time I had a trans cooler hose go it was on back order for two weeks . The shop just bypassed it and said watch transmission temps 3 weeks later we hit the hose installed. This was on a 2009 cascadia in 2015 . Some stuff has always been on back order lol

 

Sounds like op needs to be more resourceful and go get a a hose made or find an aftermarket part from fleetpride etc...

Can't believe guys run this way. At the mercy of a shop.

 

Doesn't take Stephen Hawking to see, there's no money in repairing old trucks, we need to sell new ones. Having a hose made isn't as easy as it was in the 80s. I took a worn hose from some farm equipment and the car parts place couldn't do it. All they could do is sell a new one in the box that they naturally didn't have. Even got rid of the machine, liability, they claimed. While I don't think these dealers maliciously keep the parts hidden, there's no money in inventory either, and rather than stock these parts, it's cheaper to order them on a "as needed" basis. Too bad that system was overwhelmed before it got started.

 

I blew a hydraulic hose on my moffett a few weeks ago while out in the field. Turned out there was a Napa in the nearest town that still makes hoses. The kid behind the counter (who was all of 20 years old) had me a new hose made in about ten minutes. I was impressed!