In search of Jerico Parts

[Jim Caughlin]

Originally Posted by b.guggenmos

I received a long response from Jerico I shared with Rory McNeil this weekend at a local stick race. Long story short Jerico said they will not produce parts costing hundreds of thousands of dollars and then be stuck with them or not make any money id they do sell.

Talking with Rory this weekend we know of far more people running DR4's that will need parts at some point than DR4-4's. I can't think that running a batch of mainshafts for stock would be a huge investment for Jerico to keep their customers existing transmissions going.

I purchased a new DR4-4 last year. I looked at GForce but in my car it would have required some serious work to get the shifter back far enough. The Jerico is on the very last holes on the extension housing but is perfect. I did send my Long shifter to have stops added and converted to a pistol grip.

Maybe if enough people contact Jerico they will rethink the decision to drop support of the DR4?

Hundreds of thousands of dollars to make replacement main shafts that they already have designed and just need to do a production run on? We have a lot of CNC machine tools at my work and I can tell you $100,000 goes a long way when it comes to CNC machining. In addition, we regularly make one off replacement parts for out of date machinery that we built all the way back to the 70's, it's called 'customer service'.

Jim Caughlin
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