[Healeys] Bent axle?

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 21:19:51 MDT 2009


Peter -

Have you taken the wheel and drum  off to see if the hub nut is tight or
not?

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Peter Linn <greylinn at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> G'day Michael
>
> I seem to remember a while ago you mentioning a bent axle casing on your
> rally
> car. I'm beginning to wonder if I have a similar problem on the Ward
> Special
> (which is built on a BN1 chassis and running gear) When I bought the car
> about
> 6 years ago, the left rear tyre was quite badly worn on the outside edge. I
> assumed at the time this tyre had been swapped from the front, so had the
> tracking checked and left it at that until I replaced the tyres. Now, a new
> tyre that has only been on the rear is showing the same signs after only a
> few
> thousand miles. So far as I have been able to measure between the axle and
> chassis reference points, the axle isn't misaligned in the chassis (in
> which
> case I'd expect both tyres to wear, one on the inside and one on the
> outside
> edge). So, I guess this doesn't leave many other possiblities. The car was
> heavily crashed in 1956 when new, hence the rebody - but I'm surprised that
> it's gone this long with a bent axle, especially when it was used as a race
> car for 10 years!
>
> Your thoughs appreciated
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter Linn
> Brisbane Oz
> BN1 Ward Special
> BN1 Holden V6


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