Ya, factory tolerences are poor to say the least but that doesn't mean that when a defect is pointed out that they shouldn't at least try to fix the issue.

I sublet out some frame work last year on a Road Runner I restored. The hood and fenders didn't fit well at all. I called the shop owner up and talked to the frame technician. His excuse was that the factory tolerences were +/- 1/4"! That's a half inch swing!! From now on all the sheetmetal gets installed before it leaves the frame rack.

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Right...and I've never seen a factory cap off-centre like the Echlin caps, so I think their line about "meeting factory specs" was just boilerplate text designed to get me to shut up (ha, fat chance of that...)
Tilt!

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Installing the sheet metal is standard procedure, just think the tolerances on all cars were horrible in until the early eightys. You could remove a rusty non wrecked fender from one car and bolt on a straight one from a doner and you had better have all shims because you would need them to make everything line up.

Remember the old Jap car commercial with rolling a marbel down the hood lines of their cars?

This was for a reason for the marbel, Detroit sheetmetal did not line up properly.
My dad still has a bought new 78 powerwagon that the hood hit the fender on the passenger side the day it came off the car carrier.
He bought the truck before it was even un-loaded.

Shawn

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1971 D100 SWB Step side, 225, 3 on the tree, 3.91 gear

Hey Dan!

I don't know whether or not I need a cap just yet, but I was at NAPA yesterday getting my carb kit, and took a look at the cap they had there for my '74 Dart /6. It was light tan, and ground dead on-center. I'd be happy to put it on my /6.

Couldn't get a float from NAPA for the 1920, but Advance Auto shows one on the web (part # CF362). Gonna order/buy one tomorrow.

About all I did with my Dart today was look under it to see if I had disc brakes. Sure enough!

Take care and enjoy the day!

Frank

So...Echlin fix the problem right in time for their parts line to be consolidated with Standards, eh?

Thanks for the news report.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

I've had the same results. The one I pulled off when I first got the car was off centered, but the two I've bought since then were dead center (or at least as close as I could tell by eyeballing it).

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'74 Duster w/ HEI ignition, beat to snot suspension, A904, 8.25" 3.55 SG rear, still being tuned up and gets 17 MPG

Know how they always build a better idiot? That's me

Just got this e-mail from the SMP engineer:

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We could not find the old stamping die which made the longer MO-3000 segment, but we did find another which had no use. We modified this tool to make the longer MO-3000 contact segment. Segments have been made, we're waiting for production dept to complete the plastic moldings & assembly.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

I just went to p/u the two rotors I ordered.

Dan hit the nail on the head. One of them was tan and had a long terminal on it. The other was white and had a short nose on it.

Course I only took the tan one.

Interesting!


C

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-76 Cordoba, 360 4bbl
-68 Valiant, 273 2bbl
-67 Dart /6 4bbl, Leaning Tower of Power!!!

Just got a "now available again" package from SMP, containing 3 shiny new MO-3000 long-tip rotors.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

how long till they get dispersed to the west coast?

what stores will they be available at?

D~~~!

You'll still be getting 'em from NAPA. If they try to palm off a white one on you, tell 'em to order another, and keep ordering until the right (tan) ones come in.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

What's the length of the 'good' ones vs 'bad' ones in case they change colors...........

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64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

Don't have a short one to measure. Got a long one to measure, but my micrometer's gone missing! They're not gonna change colours in the foreseeable future. All the new MO-3000s are tan.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Well, I ordered 2 MO3000's from a reputable online Napa retailer (I don't have a convenient Napa store). Got the white rotors, not tan. The guy at the place tried to help, contacting Napa and Echlin. His final response is below, the picture he talks about was a link to a slantsixdan post with the white and tan rotor photos that I sent to him.

"Thanks for your patience I finally got through to Echlin and they don’t have any of the rotors like the picture you sent me. They all come black now with a metal tip if you can’t use them send them back in a nice neat box and we will give you a refund. I’m sorry about this they should at least have sent out a bulletin."

The ones I got were off white, not black by any means, but not brite white either. I'm going to contact Napa directly and see if I can get a better response. I may have to make a couple of trips to an out of town dealer, but they'll probably get white ones too. Any advice?

Thanks,
John

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66 Barracuda 225 auto