[Mgs] losing a wheel

[Max Heim]

Last year on the Pullover Rally a fellow lost the wheel on his Fiat 850
spider. He was trailering the car in from Reno, and was delayed overnight
when the trailer lost a wheel bearing. That repaired, he intercepted the
rally route mid-course, rolled the Fiat off the trailer, and within half a
mile lost a wheel. Upon closer inspection this was not surprising -- the
other front wheel had only three nuts, two of which were incorrect -- they
were the closed-end type and were not deep enough to seat the wheel even
when they bottomed-out on the stud. A search along the road turned up the
other wheel and one more nut. But only one stud on that side had enough
thread left to accept a nut at all. Needless to say it went back on the
trailer.

The moral of this story is, always check your nuts.

--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires



on 4/30/10 9:16 AM, atweditor at aol.com at atweditor at aol.com wrote:

>  Haven't "lost" a wheel, but before I learned the importance of hub
> maintenance I had a couple of experiences of stripping the splines off of a
>1 0worn wheel/hub combo. They went "BANG" and then the wheel turned ever so
> freely without regard to drive train, brakes or anything else.
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> Grease is SO important.
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> Jay Donoghue
> 72 B-GT (w/ wires)
> 66 Mustang
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Whiteman <awhitema at panix.com>
> To: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Cc: MG Mailing List <mgs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Fri, Apr 30, 2010 11:48 am
> Subject: Re: [Mgs] losing a wheel
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> On Apr 30, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Paul Hunt wrote:
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>> resumably well into the journey than.  I've had a wheel (front) come loose
> after only half a dozen miles when I forgot to fully tighten the nuts the day
> before, but fortunately I heard an odd noise then immediately realised what
> it
> was and all four nuts were still there (as well as the one behind the wheel).
> 
> Yeah, I was 150 miles or so into the loop, with some very solid twisties
> already covered.  The car "felt funny" for a half mile or so before the wheel
> fell off, but I dumbly attributed that to the road.  Whoops.