 Though Brewer returned to the team as crew chief, Labonte scored only 4 wins between 1987 and 1989.Labonte departed for the Precision Products Racing team for the 1990 season after planning to run his own independent team.In 1990,
Junior Johnson, owner of one of the top NASCAR teams, approached Alan Kulwicki at the beginning of the 1990 season to try to get him to replace Terry Labonte in the No.