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Re: Steering rack gaiters

To: CIAG6@aol.com, ddubois@sinclair.net, mg-t@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Steering rack gaiters
From: Herald1200@aol.com
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:30:44 -0500
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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