Here, here. I just removed my tube shocks and installed the orginal Armstrongs.
I bought rebuilt armstrongs from Moss.
Great ride.
Larry Hoy
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
>Behalf Of WSpohn4@aol.com
>Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 8:11 AM
>To: mgs@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: MGB Tube Shocks
>
>
>In a message dated 10/04/00 11:16:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>owner-mgs-digest@autox.team.net writes:
>
>> I've invested several hours in archive browsing time reviewing tube shock
>> conversions. I plan to do this at some point in the future as my lever arm
>> shocks leak badly.
>
>So what's wrong with rebuilding your Armstrongs, or buying new? Tubes offer
>no real improvement over them, especially for the street, they wear out
>sooner, and many of the front conversions would delight Rube Goldberg.
>
>And I would discount most of the reports of people that have made the
>conversion, if I were you. You are dealing with 2 things there. First, the
>guy telling you that the tubes are so great has just spent more than a few
>bucks doing the conversion. It just isn't human nature to expect him to say
>"Gee, that was sure a waste of money".
>
>Similarly, human nature for some reason precludes people, when they try the
>new set up and rave about how much more effective it is, from remembering
>that what they are comparing it to wasn't a brand new factory installation,
>but a set of totally thrashed, leaking Armstrongs. Hell, you could bolt a
>couple of those rear tailgate gas lifts in place and the guy would still be
>cliaming (perhaps correctly) that what he had now was better than the pitiful
>situation he had before.
>
>Bill Spohn
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