Jim, I think you are being unrealistic. I look after my midget racecar
mechanicals
very well but I still had a kingpin failure (it had only done a couple of
meetings).
The reason was a manufacturing fault - improper radiusing near the base. The
resultant ridge acted as a crack initiation site.
Modern quality assurance practices are much better than when our LBCs
were being made... So while some failures are due to poor maintenance,
others are marginal design (stub axles on spridgets) that aren't up to the
loads
modern tires can impose, and others are due to manufacturing problems.
It doesn't change the way I feel about our fun little cars, but it is a
fact
nonetheless.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Carlile <j_carlile@yahoo.com>
To: WSpohn4 <WSpohn4@aol.com>; mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: Breakage
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>> Hey guys,
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>> <<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?
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>Never in 250,000 miles. That just doesn't happen. The car would have
>to have been completely neglected in order to do so-- like, bolts
>never tightened, or never a lube job. But even then?? Not with normal
>driving. The parts themselves last that long, though not happily.
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>I've only had three road breakdowns in 24 years: one due to my
>ignoring a frayed low tension lead, one due to my ignoring ancient
>clutch hydraulics that had been warning me for years by their
>disinclination to want to put the car into reverse, and one due to a
>clutch that failed because it had trained at least a dozen people in
>how to drive a stick and just couldn't go on.
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>All were my own fault. British cars are a piece of shit? I don't think
>so.
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>Jim
>74B
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