Sounds like a similar situation that happened to my boss back in the
late 60's. He was racing a Spit down in College Station, Texas and had
some nice solid disk aluminum wheels. The problem was that the puny
studs were not long enough nor large enough in diameter to hold the
wheel on in the high banked turns there. The left rear wheel came off
but luckily managed to stay up under the fender well until he could
drift down to the infield.
We later replaced all the lugs on the entire car.
Joe (C)
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-fot@Autox.Team.Net] On
Behalf Of Joe Boruch
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 3:57 PM
To: triumph_marx@freenet.de
Cc: fot@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Loosing a wheel
I was crewing at Lime rock this weekend during an EMRA enduro. A new
Mini was coming into the pit, when one of the pit Marshals started
yelling for everyone to get over the pit wall. Coming in next to the
Mini was an aluminum wheel with no tire. Turns out the tire was still
in the LF wheel well. He had lost his lug nuts, the wheel stayed under
the car rubbing on the brake caliper, until the inner edge of the inner
bead seat wore thru, leaving the majority of the wheel to part from the
tire. They put a spare tire/wheel on, new lug nuts and went back out
to finish the race. Talk about being lucky! Joe(B)
-- <triumph_marx@freenet.de> wrote:
What do you need to loose a wheel?
Slick tires or is a Yoko A032 just strong enough to brake a wheel of?
What does this occure? Driving over curbs?
Chris
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