Same deal for me. At Indy last June the rack I had failed exactly the same way.
Happened at the end of the front straight as I slowed from 130 to 50 for the
corner. The car started veering left towards the wall as I turned right. I hit
the wall at 35mph causing severe suspension and body damage.
Sam Halkias
> On Nov 9, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Tony Sheach <tony.sheach@live.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Charly
>
> There were a large number of failures of these racks in the UK on both road
> and competition cars. For MOSS to say that there was only one is simply
> untrue.
>
> I personally had TWO failures of brand new racks about 18 months apart. Both
> of these failures involved the pinion housing separating from the rack tube
> at high speed in very dangerous circumstances.
>
> I would NOT recommend the use of a MOSS rack to anyone, whether for road or
> competition use because the manufacturing quality is poor and the material
> quality is similarly inadequate. The information that I was given at a
> meeting face to face with MOSS in london have me the impression that some
> testing had been done, but the solution to the problem really had not been
> found (ie do the job properly).
>
> I now use a custom made rack which has a single piece pinion housing and rack
> tube made from billet aluminium. These are being made in the UK. I will never
> use a steering rack supplied by MOSS again.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 9 Nov 2015, at 07:04, Charly <charly@mitchelplumbing.com> wrote:
>>
>> Friends,
>>
>> I have a friend wanting to buy a quick steering rack for his TR4A. I told
>> him there was a problem with them, but I thought it was resolved. I
>> searched the archives
>> and could find anything about it. Does someone in the group know the
>> outcome of the problems that were brought to Moss on these quick racks?
>> Thanks,
>> Charly Mitchel
>> Tr6 #44
>>
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