This happened on my dad's Triumph Stag (same IRS hubs that we have on
our TR's), and the wheel fell off. The guy who rebuilt his hub did a
bad job, and my dad suspected that it wouldn't last. He was driving
down the highway a few days after getting the car back, and started to
notice a shimmy. Slowed down and rode down the shoulder at about 5mph,
and then the wheel fell off. No joke, it happened.
Tim Holbrook
1971 TR6
--- jay_welch@juno.com wrote:
> To: tr6taylor@webtv.net
> CC: 6pack@autox.team.net
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:35:26 -0400
> Subject: Re: Old wives tale?
> From: jay_welch@juno.com
>
> Hi Dick,
>
> What about the hub itself? Have they been known to come apart when
> allowed to wear beyond spec?????
>
> Jay
>
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:50:12 -0700 (PDT) tr6taylor@webtv.net (Sally
> or
> Dick Taylor) writes:
> > List---In looking at the way the rear hub is designed and attached
> to
> > the trailing arm, I see no way "the wheel could come off" if an
> axle
> > should break. Such an unlikely episode would also require that all
> > six
> > bolts that secure the hub to the trailing arm would have to let go.
>
> > If this happened, it must've been on the solid axle TR's, but not
> > the
> > ones with IRS. Perhaps the inspiration for the old Kenny Rogers
> > hit,
> > "You picked a fine time to leave me, Loosewheel"
> >
> > Dick
> > '73
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