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Re: $$$ for Diffs

To: Ptegler <ptegler@gouldfo.com>
Subject: Re: $$$ for Diffs
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:02:45 -0400
Ptegler wrote:
> Prime example.   Explain to me why a 71-78 Spitfire front bumper
> cost  $549.95 for that little flimsy thing.

  Insurance insurance insurance.

  Most accidents involve "things at the front" and most insurance
payouts just look it up and write a check.

  I suspect almost all bumpers, bonnets, and fenders sold
by these guys are sold to body shops doing insurance work.

  The spitfire is a little "special" because the way the
bonnet and fenders are one, but is a Midget fender worth
$599 US? I had six in my basement I couldn't give away.

> The recent differential talk has brought back to mind one of the (to me
> anyway) great puzzles of Spitfire ownership - why the heck do rebuilt diffs
> cost so darn much in the US? It is cheaper to buy a rebuilt transmission
> for a Spit from the "big 3" than a differential. Surely a differential is
> far easier to rebuild and far less complicated?

  Perhaps, but a transmission is lot easier to work on DIY
than
a differential.

  If you are careful and have basic tools, you can strip and
rebuild a tranny. Not so with a differential, setting the gear
mesh is a bit of a black art.

-- 
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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