The parts business is a pretty big business. One can only estimate how many parts there are in this world. It seems like every vehicle introduced tries to recreate the wheel and the engineers redesign everything every time.
With parts changing to frequently, many companies are moving away from rebuilding parts and are moving towards manufacturing replacement parts. The big issue here, is that many companies try and source the parts as cheaply as possible. This usually results in the manufacturing moving overseas where the metal available is of much lower quality.
The companies that opt to rebuild/remanufacture parts generally don’t face the same issue. While they will look to reduce cost manufacturing replacement parts within an assembly, they generally will keep the manufacturing in the US and offer top quality parts. Then when it is time to resale the part, they aren’t selling based on price, they are selling based on quality.
A great example of this is Alliant Power. They not only are one of the premier Ford remanufactures in the market, they are usually one of the first to offer something. Recently, they release their remanufactured High Pressure Fuel Pump (HPFP) for the Ford 6.4 Power Stroke engines. These engines were only manufactured for two years and most companies aren’t concerned with addressing the needs of owners.
As of time of publishing, Alliant is actually the only company to offer this HPFP remanufactured kit. The kit includes all of the gaskets and hardware needed to fix your tired or worn out HPFP. They are so confident with this pump that they are willing to back their pumps with a 13 month, unlimited mileage warranty!
For more info, on this and all of their other components they offer, make sure and check out their website or visit their Facebook.