@dlearl476 posted:So sad. They used to be legendary. I'm running about 50% on having to "remake" EMPI products to get them to work.
Yeah, their products were legendary (in the late 1950's and '60's) when Joe Vittone (who started EMPI) was at the helm. Unfortunately, that ended in 1971 or '72 when Mr. Vittone sold the company to avoid losing his VW (and Porsche?) dealership. The Lee Eliminators family of companies did nothing with EMPI, (I believe) ran into financial difficulties themselves a year or 2 later and EMPI resurfaced in the late '70's as a subsidiary/brand of Mr. Bug, who didn't actually design/build or manufacture anything but marketed a whole line of (mostly chromed) VW parts in great looking blister packages. Somewhere in the '80's Mr. Bug went down the tubes, the EMPI name resurfaced as it's own brand, trying to ride on the coattails of it's former reputation, selling junk hard parts and they've been the scourge of the hobby/industry now for some 40 or so years.
A question- if you keep having to re-work their stuff to be serviceable, why are you still giving them your hard earned money?