In a message dated 3/4/2005 11:26:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, CIAG6@aol.com
writes:
>My experience with a variety of cars over the years is that Moss' rubber
>parts are of very poor quality. It doesn't seem to matter if the part is a
>shift boot, a suspension boot, a brake pedal pad or whatever they seem to be
>made from a very poor quality of rubber and wear out or crack quickly....
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Sadly, I don't believe this is limited to products of Moss Motors (although I
am now wondering how well the one steering rack gaiter I installed three years
ago on a friend's 1952 MG-TD has held up. Amazingly the original gaiter that I
replaced, while ripped from almost 50 years of stress, was otherwise still
supple as was the other -- still intact -- original).
Four years ago, I did a fair amount of work on a friend's Triumph Spitfire,
work that included replacing worn tie rod ends with brand new reproduction
pieces from The Roadster Factory. I finished the work in the fall and then
ended up storing the car for my friend over the winter. By the following
spring, the rubber boots on these brand-new tie rod ends (manufactured, as I
recall, in Taiwan or somewhere in that area) had dried, hardened, and split
horribly...while the car had not turned a wheel!
Very disillusioning....
--Andy Mace
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