Fred Pixley asked:
> My question is: Is there a correlation between type of wheel and loss of a
> wheel while driving or is the cause careless installation regardless of
type?
Here's an example that could only happen with a wire wheel. My third '67 B, now
in Norway, was a fixer upper that had belonged to bozos.
When rebuilding the suspension, I discovered that the left front hub was a right
side hub. Not only that, it was an earlier, fine thread hub. On further
investigation, the twisted and mutilated condition of the left front suspension
made it obvious that the left front wheel had come off at speed. Since the
threads were going the wrong way, the knockoff had loosened while driving. The
backing plate had been straightened out so they'd had the thing apart and put
the offending hub back on! I think this qualifies more as criminal negligence
than careless installation.
Luckily, for $20 I bought the front suspension off of a car that had been rolled
onto its right side. It turned out that this car had just had it's kingpins
redone before being rolled, so my fixer upper got fresh kingpins!
I got a little off the track there, but I seem to have been suffering from
bargain bragging deprivation.
Denise Thorpe
somewhere in California
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