torque the wheel bearings to 14 lbs.......yikes...no free play..!!?!!
On Mon, 25 Aug 97, rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu (Bob Palmer) wrote:
>Ramon,
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>Just a thought about what may have caused your rotor to bust: Suppose your
>wheel bearing was a little loose. Now you clamp the binders on hard and hit
>a bump, or turn, or otherwise apply a lateral force. Instead of the wheel
>bearings taking the load, the rotor will take the load, causing it to break
>(not brake). Sound plausible? You should torque your wheel bearings to
>about 14 ft-lbs if I remember correctly. In any case, you shouldn't be able
>to feel any play in the wheel when it is adjusted correctly. They do have a
>tendency to get loose over time; especially when the bearings are first
>installed.
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>Bob
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>>Just when you think you can live with the flakey ball joints, fulcrum
>>pins, reverse-Ackerman, twist-o-flex front crossmember and stuff, here
>>comes another. At the CalClub autocross Saturday night, we busted a
>>brake rotor on my second run. Damnedest thing I ever saw. It broke all
>>the way around the mounting area, leaving the rotor part to free-wheel,
>>with the mounting part still attached to the hub.
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>>Although it made a gosh-awful noise, there was no other damage. It
>>burred the corner on one of the dust-sheild mounting bolts, and scraped
>>a bit of paint off the inside of the shield itself, but no damage other
>>than the busted rotor. And, since the rotor itself remained intact, the
>>braking loss was limited to the one front wheel--no loss of fluid or
>>anything, 'cause the rotor kept the pads in place.
>>
>>Damnedest thing I ever saw!
>>
>>Ramon
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