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Subject: [TR] Brake parts
From: Joao Simoes <jmbs46@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 08:27:48 -0400
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Does anyone have a recommended brake component supplier for the GT6?

I see brake calipers varying from $30 to $200 between Rock auto and Spit bits. 

Are they the same?  Any horror stories with the cheap ones?

Take care,

Joao

> On Apr 3, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Ron L'Herault <lherault@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> When I had a TR-3, back in 1968-1970, while in college and at the start of
> my working career,  I decided to remove front fenders in an effort to do a
> better fiberglass repair of the rust.  IN the process many of the captive
> nuts were destroyed as bolts snapped off.   My fix was to put the fender
> back on with butterfly wall fasteners where the captive nuts were missing.
> The fenders were still solidly on when I sold the car 8-).  And I often
> wonder what happened to it.   ISTR selling it to a relative of one of the
> students in the school where I'd just started teaching in Providence, RI.
> I bought a brand new GT-6+ (affectionately called, the "Oven") to replace
> it.
> 
> Ron L 
> 
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