[Spridgets] Had an OSHIT day

[fastvee]

Ah, a stroke of luck Phil! In retorspect, did you have any indications that
something might not be  right?  I know many guys don't like using the lock tab
and will just use red locktite, but I have always used both. I believe that
Gerard nailed it, and that the nut probably wasn't tight enough.
John
Fogelsville, PA

--- On Sat, 1/16/10, Phil Nase <nases at verizon.net> wrote:

From: Phil Nase <nases at verizon.net>
Subject: [Spridgets] Had an OSHIT day
To: "spridgets Spridgets at autox.team. Net" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 9:13 PM

The weather was so great today Jane and I took the yellow bugeye out for a
short ride through my favorite esses.

We rode about 10 miles before we got to the turns, a series of quick turns up
hill.  When we got there we caught a slower vehicle and I had to back off on
a
slight right hander when the engine revs went way up.  I downshifted and the
same thing happened so I got off on the shoulder.

The left rear wheel was pulled out about 5 inches.  Wheel, brake drum, hub
and
all.  We got a ride home on a rollback.  I pulled the whole thing right out
of
the diff.

The hub nut had backed off!!  It was loose and rattling around inside.  I've
never had the axles or hubs off of this car in the 6 years I've had it.  So
what would cause this to happen?  The nut and tabbed washer look fine and so
do the threads on the axle housing.

I usually drive this car pretty hard so it could have been a lot worse, we
were lucky to be going pretty slow.

Phil Nase
Quakertown, PA
http://home.comcast.net/~philnasecpa/
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