[xcamel]

Job leaving town? Thank your union bosses.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Did Tecumseh ever make an engine that would idle smoothly?
Good riddance.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BTTT

[Fierce Allegiance]

confirmed by union officials

Shocked, i tell ya.

Unions - the death knell of American industry.

[Spktyr]

Hey, UAW Local 750 - how do you feel about extorting more money from Tecumseh NOW?

[epow]

Maybe Tecumseh can make a better engine somewhere else. The Tecumseh engine on the 5KW generator I bought has not operated properly, actually barely at all, since the day I brought it home. When I called the service number in the owner's manual a very unpleasant and sarcastic service rep told me that it's normal for small air cooled engines to be hard to start, and that I was probably not following the instructions in the owner's manual. After more unproductive calls I gave up on the factory warranty and took it to a local small engine repair shop where I had to pay for the work that should have been done under warranty if there had been an authorized Tecumseh dealer in my town. But it came out even harder to start, and a 2nd visit to that shop got the same result.

I finally got an authorized Tecumseh service shop in another town to admit that the carburetor is defective and the fuel tank needs a check valve to prevent flooding. But it's now out of warranty, so it would cost approximately 1/2 the original price of the generator/engine combination to have a new carburetor installed and the tank fixed. Tecumseh won't even sell me a new carburetor and just tells me to go back to the out of town Tecumseh authorized shop. I am now tired of the runarounds and I'm stuck with a virtually useless piece of Tecumseh junk unless I sell it to some unsuspecting poor slob for much less than it cost, which I have enough honesty and decency not to do.

AFAIC Tecumseh can move anywhere it wants and I say good riddance to bad rubbish. Of course the down side is the hundreds of American workers who will lose their jobs, but I'm sure the convenience store industry will take up the slack if the supply of Pakistani and Arab immigrants runs short. (sarcasm)