Plymouthy Adams Posted October 23, 2011 Report Posted October 23, 2011 well you could have paid 90.00 per and gone with NAPA..not sure but would guess at best an item from Mexico...so its a crap shoot really....I had bought a rebuild kit prior to disassembly of my rear brakes..Napa...made in Mexico..other than a resleeved original..odds are American craftmanship is a thing of the past...and I am not so sure some of these find their way to a far off machine shop for the sleeving..would not put it past any business today to qucik step to the big bucks.. I am not going to lose any sleep over the ones I used...inspections showed them well made.. Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted October 23, 2011 Report Posted October 23, 2011 Hey, let's pay the top dollar to the most expensive parts house when ever we can. These cly last only about 5 years so let's just keep buying them. Or we can send them to appleton or white post and have them fitted with an alloy that will never pit. I did this on one of my antiques and was very happy with the wheel cly. Time was not of the essence. I am going for longivity now. The rubber is the only thing that can wear out. Quote
Eneto-55 Posted October 23, 2011 Report Posted October 23, 2011 Hang onto your originals just in case. I had mine sleeved here http://www.hagensautoparts.com/ Good job at reasonable price. What type of sleeve material do they use - Is it stainless, or brass? (Or something else?) I looked at their site (from the link you provided), and didn't find the resleeving service mentioned. I thought of this, or plating it back up to specs, back when I was doing mine 30 years ago, but at that time I easily found new originals. (The ones I took off were bady pitted, and I don't think I even kept them.... hindsight is always better, huh?) Now, after the car setting these 30 plus years (this was never anticipated back then, in my wildest imagination), I wonder what I'll find when I get back to it. (I moved back to the USA 8 years ago, and the car is still in my dad's shop, over 900 miles away from where I live now.) Neto Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted October 23, 2011 Report Posted October 23, 2011 White post has a life time warrenty I did not know that:)it's good to know. http://www.whitepost.com/brake.html Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted October 23, 2011 Report Posted October 23, 2011 I have no reason to doubt that these were the original cylinders on my 54..so lets for the heck of it say they will last on 1/3 the life..so 18 years from now I may be looking for something to get into..so until then..I will just sit back and "drink the kool-aid" actually I have no intentions of owning that car 18 years from now..I hear they are making advances by leaps and bounds on the flux capacitor.. Quote
oldodge41 Posted October 23, 2011 Report Posted October 23, 2011 The ones I had done were stainless. On the link I listed click on "Services" at the top of the page. Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted October 23, 2011 Author Report Posted October 23, 2011 By the time I am old enough to enjoy the flux capacitor, they will be making them in China. Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted October 24, 2011 Report Posted October 24, 2011 So if I wait for the flux capacitor I can go back in time when my car was new:)then bring it back from the future, Right. Ok I will wait for that technology to come around why I'm I working on these cars. I'll just sit back and relax. I have wasted all this money.... Darn, I like the red Kool aid please....Hey Kool aid Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted October 24, 2011 Report Posted October 24, 2011 No kool aid for you!!!! (this must be said in your best soup nazi voice...) as for going back in time and bring the car forward..well one must realize this of course will amount to grand theft auto..and they will find you... Quote
littlemo Posted October 24, 2011 Report Posted October 24, 2011 Joe, when I removed my front wheel Cylinders they were packed full of the same grey, gritty, crud !! What is that stuff ??? Cass, alias littlemo... Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted October 24, 2011 Author Report Posted October 24, 2011 Apparently it's something brake fluid does when it sits long enough. I've seen the same stuff in other brake components. Quote
littlemo Posted October 25, 2011 Report Posted October 25, 2011 Joe; Looks like something I'd do if I sit on the (ready for it?) "Potty-Pot" long enough !!! lol... Cass... Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted October 25, 2011 Author Report Posted October 25, 2011 I hope you have shared this with your doctor. Quote
Don Coatney Posted October 25, 2011 Report Posted October 25, 2011 Joe; Looks like something I'd do if I sit on the (ready for it?) "Potty-Pot" long enough !!! lol... Cass... Kool Aid to sliders in 4 postings. This thread went to pot in a hurry:D Quote
Young Ed Posted October 25, 2011 Report Posted October 25, 2011 Kool Aid to sliders in 4 postings. This thread went to pot in a hurry:D Alright Don quiz time. Whats the origin of the phrase "went to pot"? Quote
Don Coatney Posted October 25, 2011 Report Posted October 25, 2011 Alright Don quiz time. Whats the origin of the phrase "went to pot"? First used in 1542. I remember it well. Quote
Young Ed Posted October 25, 2011 Report Posted October 25, 2011 First used in 1542. I remember it well. HAHAHA the first one is the explanation I'd heard but google comes up with both. Two explainations have been historically applied. The first is that in olden times when food was scarce, people would leave the bones, fat and undesireable portions behind after eating their meal. These second-rate items would be used for soup the next day, so as such, the poor-quality leftovers would "go to pot". The second (and more plausible) explaination is that in the days of the industrial revolution and early mass-production, assembly workers would occasionally find a defective or out-of-tolerance part which was not suitable for use. This part would be sent back to the smelting room to be melted down and re-cast a second time. Since the smelting was done in a giant pot, these defective parts had "gone to pot". In either case, the phrase gained popular use by the American homeowner who would occasionally wear out an item which would fail- often at an inconvenient time. Quote
Don Coatney Posted October 25, 2011 Report Posted October 25, 2011 Dont forget Karl Childers and his favorite food. Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted October 25, 2011 Author Report Posted October 25, 2011 Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket? Quote
littlemo Posted October 25, 2011 Report Posted October 25, 2011 Next you guys will be Googling up synonyms for "potty-pot" such as "Thunder-mug", "Crapper", "the Loo", and my favorite, "the Throne" !!! "It's good to be the king"!! Cass, alias littlemo... Quote
Niel Hoback Posted October 25, 2011 Report Posted October 25, 2011 And you wonder why the truck forum doesn't want to merge with us. Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted October 25, 2011 Report Posted October 25, 2011 So if I wait for the flux capacitor I can go back in time when my car was new:)then bring it back from the future, Right. Ok I will wait for that technology to come around why I'm I working on these cars. I'll just sit back and relax. I have wasted all this money.... Darn, I like the red Kool aid please....Hey Kool aid I must apologize, I am sorry. I just saw that big pitcher of Kool aid in my mind and it took over:) I think I have tried ever flavor they have:rolleyes: With some ho ho's that is some good eaten. We have "pot Metal" on our cars. These parts are an accumulation of alloy that was used from many different sources. I have a grill section that one half was put in a bath and it decenerated, the guy was afraid to put the other in. So I got one side left. That part went to pot. Quote
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