Good advice...I wonder how often vintage street cars have stuff magnafluxed?
Racer Bud
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Wagner" <jmwagner@greenheart.com>
To: "Triumphs" <triumphs@autox.team.net>; "Friends of Triumph"
<fot@autox.team.net>; "Jim Funkhouser" <Jimspit@charter.net>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 4:25 PM
Subject: [Fot] TR6 Accident - Could have been MUCH worse
> This weekend, just blocks away from my studio, I saw a TR6 that had been
> in an accident. The car was up on a very high curb, right wheels on
> the sidewalk, left wheels in the street. The front left wheel was off
> the car and was laying on the side of the road, 5 or 6 car lengths
> back. The driver was unharmed and making the usual phone calls. With
> his permission, I looked over the car. It became readily apparent to
> me that the left front spindle had come loose. The nut that holds it
> from behind was gone. The spindle could be found still attached to the
> wheel and hub assembly.
>
> I hardly had time to do a full FCC investigation, but it looked to me
> like that nut had either come loose, and then was battered loose or it
> had been installed cross threaded, in the first place, and subsequently
> came loose... as the threads of the spindle were a mess.
>
> This TR owner was extremely lucky. It didn't happen on the freeway. It
> didn't happen when he had passengers. It didn't happen with another
> vehicle, motorcyclist, or pedestrians nearby. And the one section of
> road where he left the tarmac was the one stretch where there were no
> lamp posts or trees, etc. (100' forward or back, would have been a
> different story.) It looks like his frame was slightly tweaked, the
> front left wing and under body in that area damaged, the right two and
> front left wheels damaged. The bonnet was tweaked, but may settle out
> when the frame it checked, etc. Throw together the damage to the
> suspension parts, brake callipers (which had been broken into pieces!),
> etc., and he's likely looking at $6K in repairs or more. Sad, because
> the car was quite beautiful. Relative to the car, the positive thing is
> that the frame is robust and the car can be brought back to a high
> standard in short time.
>
> A few lessons here are...
>
> 1. Cross-threading is dangerous.
> 2. Try to inspect your vehicle when you have wheels off, etc.
> 3. Listen carefully to your vehicle and when it speaks, listen.
> 4. (I'm not a roll bar fan, but... think about one...)
>
> And lesson for self... "Justin, your cell phone has a camera... use it."
>
> --Justin
>
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