Good point Doug The Roadster Factory and British Parts Northwest (for those not
familiar I would describe them as middle sized parts houses compared to Moss)
both offer a lot of items in lower and higher quality.
Greg Lemon
---- "Mr. Finespanner" <mrfinespanner at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Pegasus still offers genuine Girling master cylinders and that has
> been my choice even before this Wal-Moss recall. You will likely
> need to swap over your old push rod to the new cylinder, but that's
> certainly easy enough. If your old push rod has an elongated hole
> you just cut off the bad end, run some threads down the shaft, and
> screw on a new clevis (available from McMaster for $5 - $7) with
> a jam nut like a BJ8 brake master push rod arrangement. Now you have a new
> rod that lets you adjust pedal height, and Robert is your
> father's brother.
>
> What I can't understand is why Wal-Moss can't offer real Girling
> when Pegasus can. Why not provide the real thing, whenever
> possible, for those who are willing to pay the higher cost, and
> have a second line of bargain-priced Asian stuff for those with
> more limited fundage? They already do that to a certain extent in
> the catalog, but it could be much expanded. With the bucks some
> of the cars have been selling for these days it's obvious that at least
> a few folks have deep pockets and don't mind spending. I am not well versed
> in matters of big business and finance, but it seems to me that if a company
> like Moss started buying from a geniune supplier, like Girling, then the
> genuine supplier would be less inclined to discontinue production of those
> bits. That's just my opinion; I could be wrong.
>
> regards,
> Doug Reid, 18G Motorworks
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