The mounts manfactured by Goodparts (and sold by TRF) are much better.
They spread the load over a wider surface area than the ones that Moss
uses, and thus are much less proan to cracking. I have heard of many
people who had Moss mounts crack. I've been using the Goodparts mounts
for a few years, no problems. My brother has them on his GT6 also, no
problems.
Tim Holbrook
1971 TR6
--- Rob Pennington <robp@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:06:27 -0600
> To: "Alan & Debbie Lindner" <theedge@cts.com>
> From: Rob Pennington <robp@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Steering rack mount conversion
> CC: 6pack@autox.team.net
> Reply-to: Rob Pennington <robp@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>
> FWIW, I had purchased the Moss solid mounts several years ago for my
> car. After they had been in for about 2 years, I had occasion to
> take one
> of them off and was unpleasantly surprised to find that it had
> cracked and
> broken along the groove where the clamp holds it. I promptly went
> back to
> rubber mounts.
>
> One thing that I did think of much later is the possibility that I
> had
> overtightened the nuts. I've since purchased the Moss quick ratio
> rack
> that also comes with solid mounts and they are constructed completely
>
> differently as they don't use a U-bolt to hold them in place.
>
> Maybe I was just unlucky or did something wrong but I think that I'd
> look
> into the urethane mounts instead of the solid mounts.
>
> Rob
> 74 TR6
>
> At 07:43 PM 2/24/2002, Alan & Debbie Lindner wrote:
> >I purchased a steering rack mount conversion kit from Moss (667-
> >288) because the mounting rubber was moving when I steer.
> >
> >I have not installed them yet and I have a question.
> >
> >What are the pros and cons in changing rubber steering rack
> >mounts for aluminum ones? I would have thought if solid is better,
> >it would have been built that way.
> >
> >=========================
> >Alan Lindner
> >'72 TR6 French Blue
> >CC75676L
> >San Diego, CA
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