My wifes GT6 lost a wheel because of bad splines. Luckly at a crawl. She was
coming out of a bank parking lot and pressed the brake and it unscrewed
itself.
Mike
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>From: "L. Metelko" <lmtr4a@ctlnet.com>
>To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Losing wire wheel
>Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2000, 3:35 PM
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> Tom:
>
> One lister thought that worn splines had caused the loss of your wire
> wheel. A badly worn spline will only allow the wheel to spin freely on the
> hub but not seperate from the hub. If you or your mechanic had tightly
> secured the knock-off the only way it could have backed off is if it was on
> the wrong side of the car. The "undo" directional arrow must point in the
> direction of foward travel. If not the knock-off will eventually back itself
> off the hub. The scarey part is there is another wheel on the other side
> that will do the same thing because a car has two "right" hubs and two
> "lefts.
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