So sad!
Yesterday, after trying NAPA with no luck, I went to the Carquest warehouse in Winchester, Va. to get the 3 bearings for an overdrive transmission. They had what I needed, 2 with outside snap ring an one without. The ones with the outside ring were National Brand made in China and the one without the ring was made in the USA, however, the US built bearing was in an older format box. I suggested to the clerk that it was obviously in stock for a while. They were sympathetic with me in my sadness that we can't even make a bearing in this country, anymore.
It's been coming for a long time. I replaced the ring gear carrier bearings on a '74 IH school bus years ago and it came from the factory with foreign bearings, but the replacement bearings I bought from an IH dealer were US made at that time.
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