Re: Broken Wheel Hub - Advice Offered & Requested

Posted by bob Rees on May 12, 2003 at 19:09:13:

In Reply to: Re: Broken Wheel Hub - Advice Offered & Requested posted by Keith Lawrence on May 12, 2003 at 09:21:06:

: : :Hi Would like to see the pic so that i know that i have not lost anything in the tranlation.
Bob
: : Hi. Darcy Nicholson the previous owner on mine 60/365 broke two stub axels both LF when running slicks and it did not do the body in the wheel area a lot of good. He tried getting stubs machined up in high tensile steel drilling the upright out and welding them in but the upright was not strong enough and it worked loose I have not had any further problems but am not running slicks and not trying as hard.
: : Bob

: Just to clarify, my stub axles (spindle) and king pins are fine.
: I broke the wheel hub - this holds the stub axles bearing and has a perpendicular flange that holds the wheel studs and also fits into the drum rotor.

: I am running Dunlops 4.5 L - 15s vintage race tires and the 948 is stock.

: I pulled the wheel hub, bearings are fine (will replace and repack anyway) and the hub looks like the radius bewteen the "hub shaft" holding the bearings and the flange is "not very smooth".
: Maybe I just got a bad set, but I'd suggest, if you're doing anything more than easy street driving - I'd suggest a crack test and check-out.

: So far, I've heard few occurances of this failure.
: I have pix that could be e-mailed if wanted.

: Keith




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