Why can't the reproduction producers use the same materials OEMs are
currently using? What would it cost, an extra nickel? Why can't Moss tell
their Taiwan suppliers - Hey, use the same rubber GM is using.
IT CAN'T BE THAT HARD OR EXPENSIVE TO MAKE GOOD RUBBER PARTS.
Bob Donahue (Still Stuck in the '50s)
Email - bobmgtd@insightbb.com
Cars: 52 MGTD - #17639
71 MGB - #GHN5UB254361
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Olde Octagons of Indiana
----- Original Message -----
From: <Herald1200@aol.com>
To: <CIAG6@aol.com>; <ddubois@sinclair.net>; <mg-t@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Steering rack gaiters
> 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....
>
> ======
> 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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