- 1. Loosing a wheel (score: 1)
- Author: <triumph_marx@freenet.de>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 21:30:08 +0100
- What do you need to loose a wheel? Slick tires or is a Yoko A032 just strong enough to brake a wheel of? What does this occure? Driving over curbs? Chris
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- 2. RE: Loosing a wheel (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:58:34 -0800
- A little horsepower certainly helps. Triumphs have a lot of ways to accomplish this feat. The front axles are a bit weak, as are the hubs. You can break a hub at the bearing carrier and have the whee
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- 3. Re: Loosing a wheel (score: 1)
- Author: Susan <spitfiresuz@141.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:22:31 -0600
- Hi Chris! A lot of the problems with losing wheels (at least in a Spitfire) stem from people adding power to the engine and putting "sticky" tires on the car, and not doing anything to upgrade the su
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- 4. Re: Loosing a wheel (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Boruch" <jaboruch@netzero.net>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 22:57:19 GMT
- I was crewing at Lime rock this weekend during an EMRA enduro. A new Mini was coming into the pit, when one of the pit Marshals started yelling for everyone to get over the pit wall. Coming in next t
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- 5. Re: Loosing a wheel (score: 1)
- Author: BillDentin@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:20:31 EST
- Amici: I got passed by a wheel once. I was having a great dice with an EXCALIBUR at Grattan many years ago. We had already swapped positions three or four times. I looked in my mirror and saw him abo
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- 6. RE: Loosing a wheel (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:26:52 -0800
- Very cool looking cars. Brooks Stevens was a hell of a designer, never understood the Willys engine though. Yikes! One of our former sales guys was married to Brooks Stevens' Granddaughter. I was muc
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- 7. RE: Loosing a wheel (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:16:59 -0700
- Sounds like a similar situation that happened to my boss back in the late 60's. He was racing a Spit down in College Station, Texas and had some nice solid disk aluminum wheels. The problem was that
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- 8. Re: Loosing a wheel (score: 1)
- Author: Russ Moore <rem9@sunlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 08:31:19 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
- I have helped set up a number of Summers Bros axle upgrades. there are about 8 of us now using them with no failures to report. I can supply contact information and even the "job number" so you can h
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- 9. Re: Loosing a wheel (score: 1)
- Author: <triumph_marx@freenet.de>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 15:06:22 +0100
- I was just wondering why one team does have lost some wheels and others There are a lot of very fast drivers around. They had no problem 'till now. One team lost several wheels last year. The drivers
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