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Re: clutch/flywheel failures/risk assessment

To: snyler <marc@animalfirm.com>
Subject: Re: clutch/flywheel failures/risk assessment
From: Gary McCormick <svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 08:01:58 -0700
And I'm still willing to wager that the number of /clutch/ failures FAR 
outweighed the
number of /flywheel/ failures - and either type of occurrence is far more 
likely to happen
in a racing environment.

Gary McCormick
San Jose, CA

snyler wrote:

> Marc Sayer wrote
>
> >A while back there was some discussion about clutch/flywheel failures. The
> >excerpts below are from the wheel-to-wheel list from today. The cars involved
> >were racing and weren't Datsuns, but none the less. Clutch and flywheel
> >failures
> >aren't common, but they certainly do happen, in all sorts of cars, as the
> >following shows. All you need is too see this sort of thing (or worse)
> >happen to
> >someone you know and you get real paranoid about these failures.
>
> The trick, I imagine is to determine just how often these things happen
> under the conditions you're likely to encounter.  Am I more likely to
> encounter a flywheel failure or tire failure?  Lightning strike?  Life
> obviously involves risk, we're all keenly aware of that now.  Is there
> any recordkeeping on such occurrences? It'd be interesting to know how
> many flywheels fail in a given year vs the nimber of cars on the road.
>
> -Marc T.
>
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