Crappy Reman parts and all the horror stories I hear, is exactly why I prefer to look for rebuild kits and reman my own ****. Though I am sad to hear Napa parts are losing quality too. I notice Napa isn't as expensive as they used to be on many things. It must be that the Discount Auto Chains were hurting them because don't shop quality, they shop price. In turn to stay in bidness, Napa probably is going down the tubes in quality too to get their prices down.
MOST, not all, but most of these Discount Auto parts reman stuff is just replace what it needs and put it back together. Or, it's done in high speed volume where tolerances aren't checked on cores and the housings are used anyway when they should have been tossed. Almost just makes me want to suck it up when I can afford it and buy brand new.
For our old trucks, as far as starters go, I'd rather take my chance and go to a DIY Pull A Part and get a starter off of a GMT400 95 or later truck and get the high torque starter. If and when it goes bad, then you at least have the high torque core to either build yourself or trade in for a reman.
I hear lots of horror stories on reman steer gear boxes. I think I'd rather take my chances getting a used one from a DIY yard also. Like a *******, I've scrapped a few power steer boxes with the truck bodies I've gotten rid of and I know for a fact at least 2 of them worked perfect and didn't have any slop. I hope I don't regret that someday.
