Bet it pulled REAL hard to one side !!
Rich
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> From: Spontelli, Ramon[SMTP:rs11@ElSegundoCA.NCR.COM]
> Reply To: Spontelli, Ramon
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 1997 9:53 AM
> To: tigers
> Subject: Brake Rotors
>
> Just when you think you can live with the flakey ball joints, fulcrum
> pins, reverse-Ackerman, twist-o-flex front crossmember and stuff, here
> comes another. At the CalClub autocross Saturday night, we busted a
> brake rotor on my second run. Damnedest thing I ever saw. It broke
> all
> the way around the mounting area, leaving the rotor part to
> free-wheel,
> with the mounting part still attached to the hub.
>
> Although it made a gosh-awful noise, there was no other damage. It
> burred the corner on one of the dust-sheild mounting bolts, and
> scraped
> a bit of paint off the inside of the shield itself, but no damage
> other
> than the busted rotor. And, since the rotor itself remained intact,
> the
> braking loss was limited to the one front wheel--no loss of fluid or
> anything, 'cause the rotor kept the pads in place.
>
> Damnedest thing I ever saw!
>
> Ramon
>
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