[Healeys] Moss brake cylinder recall

glemon at neb.rr.com glemon at neb.rr.com
Sat Sep 17 08:14:48 MDT 2011


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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