- 1. Breakage (score: 1)
- Author: WSpohn4 <WSpohn4@aol.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 14:52:03 EDT
- Hey guys, <<Doing some research for a Team project. The question is, have you every had an MG suspension component fail, while the car was being operated? What broke? Why? Outside of Midget front stu
- /html/mgs/1998-05/msg00836.html (6,961 bytes)
- 2. Re: Breakage (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
- Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 14:27:09 +1000
- Late last year I had a kingpin fail on a race midget. It was the outside wheel on a 3rd gear corner! The failure was at the radius near the base of the kingpin. Mike
- /html/mgs/1998-05/msg00916.html (7,638 bytes)
- 3. Re: Breakage (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Carlile <j_carlile@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 16:28:22 -0700 (PDT)
- -- Never in 250,000 miles. That just doesn't happen. The car would have to have been completely neglected in order to do so-- like, bolts never tightened, or never a lube job. But even then?? Not wit
- /html/mgs/1998-05/msg01001.html (7,592 bytes)
- 4. Re: Breakage (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Gigante" <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 10:57:42 +1000
- Jim, I think you are being unrealistic. I look after my midget racecar very well but I still had a kingpin failure (it had only done a couple of meetings). The reason was a manufacturing fault - impr
- /html/mgs/1998-05/msg01007.html (8,898 bytes)
- 5. Re: Breakage (score: 1)
- Author: Keith Wheeler <keithw@sand.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 09:34:37 -0700
- Mike, Jim, and all: I was the one who asked that question. As far as normal driving is concerned, I've lived with an MGB as a daily driver for the past twelve years. It's a solid old car. My question
- /html/mgs/1998-05/msg01062.html (7,389 bytes)
- 6. Re: Breakage (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Carlile <j_carlile@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 17:27:22 -0700 (PDT)
- couple of -- My comments were being made about non-race driving. Competition driving is a whole different thing... For just regular street use I have found my B to be really solid and practically 'un
- /html/mgs/1998-05/msg01088.html (7,136 bytes)
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