In 1992, a small village owner became the richest man in the village by owning a car.

Chapter 548 Crisis! Someone is setting a trap, targeting Yu Dawei!

"That shouldn't be the case." Yu Dawei squatted down again, reaching out to rub the broken gap in the middle of the crankshaft. "Brother Duan, can you find me a flashlight? I want to see what's going on inside this crack. How could it still crack?"

Theoretically speaking, whether it is a steel crankshaft or a black cast iron crankshaft, there is only the possibility of wear, and it is relatively rare for it to break during use.

The crankshaft is one of the core components of an engine because it drives the piston and connecting rod. Only with the crankshaft can the engine generate kinetic energy. Moreover, whether it is a car engine or an engine in various construction machinery, there is a crankshaft as a core component.

According to Yu Dawei's understanding, even domestically produced crankshafts rarely have the risk of cracking. Especially with the development of China Steel, which has reached the level of replacing steel with iron, the manufacturing of crankshafts in engines has even surpassed that of some foreign countries.

"flashlight!"

After Duan Dahai learned that Yu Dawei needed a flashlight, he went to the nearby container office building and searched around. Fortunately, he found two flashlights in the office cabinet.

Unlike LED flashlights from many years later, today's flashlights are still quite old-fashioned. The light comes from a very delicate little bulb inside a glass tube, like a miniature version of an incandescent bulb. The flashlights also have smooth metal casings and contain two size D batteries.

"Sister-in-law, go check Lao Liang's office again and see if there's anything he left behind." Yu Dawei looked up at Xu Guiling, who was standing not far away with her child, and explained his plan. "Brother Duan and I will check what's wrong with these parts first, and then we'll come to find you together."

Yu Dawei said this because he didn't want Xu Guiling to know just how bad the parts were. If even a grown man like Boss Liang couldn't handle it, how could a woman possibly bear it?

Yu Dawei was thinking of reporting only good news and not bad news to try to calm his sister-in-law down.

"Alright! Thank you two brothers for your help."

"You're too kind, sister-in-law. We're all good brothers, we certainly won't abandon you," Yu Dawei replied. After seeing Sister-in-law Liang leave, he took the flashlight from Duan Dahai and carefully examined the crankshaft problem next to the crack.

"Tsk tsk, this is really damn outrageous." Yu Dawei frowned, becoming more and more alarmed as he looked at it.

"What happened?" Duan Dahai asked anxiously, squatting to the side.

“Besides finding Lao Liang, we also need to thoroughly investigate this foreign company of Reps. The imported parts and equipment they brought over look like steel on the outside, but in fact they are not even cast iron inside.”

"what is that?"

“It’s cement.” Yu Dawei’s eyes flashed with a cold light.

"cement?"

"The cement with added carbon, I don't know what process was used, but it looks a lot like cast iron," Yu Dawei explained again.

"No way!" Duan Dahai's expression shifted from shock to disbelief. He stretched out his hands and lifted the crankshaft with force. "Dawei, if cement is mixed in, the weight is very different from that of metal!"

Duan Dahai used to be a scrap collector, so he was very sensitive to weights and measures. Although he couldn't lift the crankshaft by himself, he would definitely check the parts and their weight when buying spare parts. Yu Dawei probably guessed what he was thinking. He shook his head first, then stood up and sighed, "Because all kinds of mechanical parts are very heavy, we don't really have the habit of weighing parts when buying them in our industry."

"Huh?" Duan Dahai was shocked again, then glanced at the heavy crankshaft on the ground and understood a little.

“Any of these parts is either so light you could grab a handful with one hand, or so heavy you couldn’t lift them with two hands. Nobody cares about the weight of the parts.” Yu Dawei squatted down again, stroking the outer surface of the crankshaft. “Everyone is only concerned with the overall quality.”

"How do you judge the quality? To put it simply, it's about comparison. Compare it with similar parts that were better in the past. Is it made of steel? Do the details match? These are the most important factors in judging the quality of parts."

"So this thing also requires a good eye." Yu Dawei turned back to Duan Dahai and smiled bitterly. "The sad thing is that the batch of parts that Lao Liang brought over are considered to be pretty good imitations."

"You can think of it as the ceiling in the world of fake antique making. Making antiques that are hundreds of years old is like child's play to these people. That's the status of these accessories now."

Yu Dawei put his oily hands into the basin of gasoline to wash them. Now that he knew the problem, the other parts should probably be in the same condition.

It's not that the surface is covered with steel and the inside is cast iron; it's just pure cast iron that's been casually manufactured to ensure that the appearance meets the standards, looks extremely extraordinary, and the quality is superb.

"You mean, if these parts re-enter the market, they can still be sold as genuine?" Duan Dahai also put his hands into the gasoline basin, and the gasoline worked well to clean the black oil stains off his hands.

“Theoretically, it’s feasible.” Yu Dawei raised an eyebrow and said with a smile, “That’s why when this batch of goods first entered the market, Lao Liang was as happy as a child, showing off to us every day. Because on the surface, this thing really does look pretty good. The texture is clear, and the crankshaft connection is very delicate and smooth. It’s definitely made of good steel.”

"But when this thing re-entered the market, it was met with another wave of attacks." Yu Dawei paused for a moment, his smile fading, before saying, "Making ordinary domestic parts shouldn't be difficult now, but to achieve something like this, which is purely for deception, is truly not easy."

"I suspect that someone may have set a trap for Boss Liang."

Yu Dawei actually had a deeper suspicion: if the parts were used to set a trap for Boss Liang, was it possible that the person who set the trap was actually after him?

After all, the reason why Boss Liang became famous was because he took his Yu Dawei Accessories business out of the country.

Of course, it's impossible to be sure right now. We'll have to find Boss Liang and communicate with him to figure out what kind of person Pres is and who's behind him.

"It's going to be tough. If this kind of stuff gets into the market, it's bound to ruin a person's reputation and credibility. It'll probably be difficult for Lao Liang to go down the parts business in the future."

Duan Dahai was thinking a long way ahead. He turned his head and glanced at the four warehouses next to him. Two of the warehouses were almost full of parts imported from Presley.

If the source really can't be found, even selling the contents of these two warehouses as scrap metal won't be easy.

(End of this chapter)