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Re: Wire wheel Woes

To: triumphs@autox.team.net, shammy@inmind.com (Christian Simonsen)
Subject: Re: Wire wheel Woes
From: jim.sudduth@autodesk.com
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 96 09:07:42 PST
     If your hub gives way a little more than braking and acceleration 
     might be absent - the whole wheel may decide to live an independent 
     life, thereby endangering yours. The best thing to do is to take care 
     of this right away. If you let it go you just make it worse each time 
     you drive the car and make it more likely that you *will* have to 
     replace more than just a bearing or two. It could just be a simple 
     matter of repacking and adjusting the bearings.
     
     Jim
     jims@autodesk.com
     '74 TR6 CF20076U


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Subject: Wire wheel Woes
Author:  shammy@inmind.com (Christian Simonsen) at smtpcc
Date:    6/4/96 5:31 PM


Mr. Question is here again.
     
I still don't have a good idea about the RAANNNK noise but I am thinking it 
may just be a very onery thermostat.  I heard the noise today after the car 
was shut off!
     
While adjusting the brakes, I noticed one of my wheels has some rotational 
play on the hub. Not a good thing me thinks. I would fathom a guess that 
both the hub and the wheel are messed up. Is it going to hurt to run like 
that a while (I guess if it gives way, braking and acceleration may be 
absent from that wheel)
     
When this happens, do I just lay out big bucks for new wheels and new hubs?
     
I've heard about rebuilds, but I think one does a rebuild because he has 
good centers.......
     
As always comments are appreciated.  See ya
     
Christian Simonsen  
Virginia, USA
shammy@inmind.com
     
1954 TR2 TS1675  long door waiting for attention
     
1963? TR4 CT 24093 LO runs like a champ most days 
     


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