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MG TD TF 1500 - New TF Brake Drums

Moss is showing new brake drums for the TF under new products, pt number 264-320, not the Alfins, has anyone had any experience with these? PJ
PJ Jennings

Wire wheel brake drums have always been available to my knowledge since the TF went into production via BMC or the aftermarket industry that continue to make conversion kits available. It’s replacement brake drums for disc wheels that are the issue and hopefully someone is going to step up to the plate soon and tool up for them before the 20,000 some odd TDs and TFs still on the toad become sidelined for the lack of safe brake drums. I for one do not subscribe to the John Twist method of extending drum life by shimming wheel cylinder pucks.

Bill Chasser
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W A Chasser

I sent a TD drum to a manufacturer in the UK (Orson), asked them to quote and put it in the hands of the MG Octagon club. That was the last I heard of it.
Dave H
Dave Hill

I purchased two from MOSS for my rears in 2017. I found that they looked slightly different from the originals on my TF, so I purchased two more for the front.

They are of reasonable quality. What I did find was the metal edge of the brake shoe backing just touched the ridge at the end of the working section of the drum on one of the rears. I knocked out a thin gasket between hub and drum and problem solved.

I look after a second TF for a fellow Club member. His TF had the same problem after a, so called, mechanic fitted new drums. Same issue, same solution. In the good old days when I had a YB as a teenager, I would have used a sheet of brass shim to knockout the spacer. This time I used a sheet of card.

TF 1500 9194
GOF-South 2019

I bought 4 from Moss in late 2016, all were good, dead on at 9.00”

The shoes had very thin linings, going to have an old set of shoes fitted with new linings and arced to drums.

Peter
P G Gilvarry

Just found out the new ones are made in the UK, pleasant surprise and giving more confidence in the product! I bought 4, look nice, very professionally done. PJ
PJ Jennings

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