Bud Osbourne wrote:
> If we
> all do that, we drive the O.E. suppliers off the market and leave ourselves
> at the mercy of the purveyors of pacific rim junk.
> I like/need to save money as much as (if not more than) the next guy. But,
> there are some things I won't compromise on.
Wait a minute here, unless things changed in recent years, TRF has it's
OWN chinese manufacturing plant. I recall the TR6 green radiator hoses
turning black all by themselves on the boat ride over.
I stopped by their vending table at Bowie. It was a chinese flea market
of moss crap and other chinese or taiwan junk.
It's too late, the major suppliers sold out to the asians back in the
80s. Oh and beware of those "made in UK" stickers on the stuff from that
UK colony called Hong Kong!
Like the leaf springs made by British Spring UK, they assemble them out
of chinese steel in the UK. You can see the chinese letters on the
springs stamped right in.
Read between the lines people. Lucas "type" is NOT Lucas.
> LBCarCo sells all types at reasonable
> prices, including a little round one (never
> used one of these) for
> even less than the Facet.
Watch out for that plastic diaphram round SU "type" fuel pump, the
plastic wear out real fast and it cracks and the pump leaks.
1 year at best if you use the car.
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Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
Back up to too many sprites again.
http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/
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