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
-----Original Message-----
From: WSpohn4 <WSpohn4@aol.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, May 16, 1998 4:53 AM
Subject: Breakage
>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 stub axles, which are well known to be
>failure prone, I'm interested in stories of MG breakage.
>Thanks,
> -Keith Wheeler>>
>
>The only suspension item that has ever outright failed on me was an MGA
>kingpin, fortunately the inside one, years ago at Spokane.
>All other DNFs have been driveline, electrical, fuel (not enough), or
>stupidity (too much).
>
>Bill S.
>
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