So much for that toyota quality..

LMAO! This is freaking hilarious.

How's this for a downward spiral? A guy who worked in techinical support for a product with a US made chip but board made in Taiwan and other chips made in Ireland owns an US assembled truck (2001 Dodge Ram Off Road) with multiple parts outsourced from Japan loses his job to someone in an Indian call center and now has to turn in his truck and buy and old (89) Toyota (4Runner). He loads this truck up with a US made ladder to install equipment made and assembled in Taiwan and owned by Japan and now has to buy whatever is cheapest at Wally World to make ends meet. Those items are made in China. The springs sag so he buys new ones made in US. 40K miles of hard labor later, the truck burns a valve due to a short caused by the injector wiring harness rubbing on the fuel rail. He replaces it with a valve from NAPA made in the US and continues on to make more dough and climb back the ladder to success. He now owns three Mopars (74 Ramcharger, 72 Duster and a 92 Jeep Cherokee). The 74 RC has rods made in China (Eagle I-Beams), the Jeep has a Japanese alternator (and Lord knows what else) and the only 100% USA made vehicle he has is the Duster.

This guy is me. I'd buy all US if I could, but who makes rods good for 6K rpm here? Cranks? Callies makes a great crank but not for the 360. I'm using Ferrea Valves, who knows where they're from, but I'm thinking China. I bought some Eddy valve covers and they were made in Tiawan and of such poor quality I sent them back and bought Moroso's. Hell, no one here could be whining if they weren't on a Asian built computer and popping a chip and memory on a motherboard doesn't make your computer "Made in USA" either.

I personally knew someone who worked QC for Ford. It was BS that the "News" only focused on US recalls while ignoring Asian vehicles and it hurt the industry, but what really hurt the industry more than anything was the fkn mob run commie unions that ran the auto industry into the ground and turned Detroit into a ghost town. 140K a year to work on an assembly line is what killed Detroit. The free market spoke and the unions lost. Fk 'em. My RC was about the worst assembled vehicle I have ever owned. Missed spot welds, gaps in the body that allowed water in, tolerances in manufacture that are in no means acceptable in any year or make. I've spent years trying to make this truck what it should have been to start with, and don't even get me started on the busted transfer cases, bent drivelines and broke rear ends on my two NEW mopar trucks I've owned. Maybe I'm tougher on my trucks than most given where I live close to the mountains, or maybe not.

I will say that Mopar made the best of engines but their drivelines in the newer ('97-'01) trucks sucked.

Just food for thought. Oh, BTW, Smallblock Bill, what about all those Goldwings you own? LMAO!

There are no easy solutions.