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Well, most everything Newstar sells is trash. This is probably more of a reflection on Newstar's mgmt. decisions than on the Chinese their outsourcing the actual manufacturing to. I agree that the Chinese have/had a spotty reputation. A friend in manufacturing once told me "The Chinese are...

A. The 4419s were made in the USA forever. At some point in the last 2-5 years (I just can't remember, sorry), I noticed the change to China. B. It's the Horror Freight phenomena. Businesses are greedy, no doubt but consumers are cheapskates. C. I've probably installed at least a hundred...

At the end of the M44 service career, even the military was buying the wrong wheel cylinders. It's hard to say if they knew and didn't care or of vendor(s) changed the spring and didn't say anything and no one caught it.

I bought these NOS cylinders for a halftrack. This is how they showed up. To use these, you'd have to sandblast and hone them to get all the corrosion out.

No, they're bare metal with a very thin layer of cosmoline (so thin it might as well be WD40). I paint all the wheel cylinders I install to keep them from rusting. The WWII halftrack takes the same 4419 as the M44 series, this is a set I just installed.

Yes, there is a difference. Look at this wheel cylinder spring: Now look at this wheel cylinder spring: Notice how the first (top) pictured spring has straight ends but the second (bottom) is tapered on the end? The second (bottom) spring is what's correct and what you need and it's what...