[Healeys] Fwd: Fw: Safely Alert - Midget/Spridget Rear Brakes

[David Porter]

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Dear VMC Representative:

The good folks at CVAR have reported what is apparently *a very 
widespread issue to the rear brakes shoes on the Austin Healey Sprites 
(square body and bugeye)  and the MG Midget cars* which share the same 
rear brake shoe. A bad batch of bad  "bonded" (not riveted) brake 
linings have been reported to delaminate from the shoe causing massive 
brake failures on a number of these cars.  In one case, failure was 
after one session on brand new set of brake shoes.

If you have a way to communicate this to your members who own these 
cars, it would probably be a good idea to do so.  If it is determined 
the brake shoe manufacturer or supplier is at fault, we'll so advise. 
But in the meantime, inspection (and replacement?) is highly recommended.

Many of you may not even realize that VMC has maintained a */"Mechanical 
Failures List"/* over the years.  The above issue has been added to that 
list. You can download the updated entire list of known failures here 
<http://www.the-vmc.com/hostedfiles/VMC-Mechanical%20Failures%20List.pdf>.  
It might be well to forward it to the person in charge of your tech 
inspections as a reminder of these many known issues, including this 
latest addition.


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