Hatchie... almost lost the wheel...

BRUMBERTY · Post by **BRUMBERTY** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:03 pm

Less scary- but amusingly I recall towing the old tandem dive boat trailer down the highway years ago and being overtaken by a trailer wheel.

My mate and I both looked at it thinking , that looks like ours??
It was!
( tandem wheels meant we didn't feel it go )
We were doing 110, the wheel must have been doing 30 more.
It bounced for about a kilometre into the bush.
It took a long time to find too.
Bloody wheel bearings.

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:33 pm

Jaffa wrote:
AndrewT wrote: I'm still abit scared though, at the end of the day it's still an L series - the damn thing will probably split down the middle after abit of my boost-junky driving!
Ummmm then y do it!?!?!?

So I can have fun overtaking WRX's in my boxy old family wagon!!
(not to mention a few EA82turbos)

BlackMale · Post by **BlackMale** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:38 pm

I'll beleive it when i see it 8O

mind you would not take much at ATM.

SuBaRiNo · Post by **SuBaRiNo** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:26 pm

I guess i was doing about 40 but i was accelerating rather heavily coming off a curb. Certainly is an eye opener. I think the entire damage was caused by the ball joint failing. I have never had one do this in my whole 6-7 years of owning a subi. No real fail safe way of preventing it i guess.

The strut restrictor seriously prevented a LOT of extra damage. The restrictor plate ended up being the only thing (except brake lines) physically holding the wheel under the car. Im not sure if the restrictor has been damaged or not yet but i know the strut would have droped out and hit the road if it wasn't there.

There was no signs that it was on it's way. I had had a small squeak on that side for the past 2 weeks but could not find anything faulty. The ball joint was bought new and put on about 2 years ago.

Dave

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:17 am

Wow only 2 years old....

With the type of driving we do, and the price of ball joints and ease of installation I rekon they should be a yearly maintanence replacement!

SuBaRiNo · Post by **SuBaRiNo** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:02 pm

Yeah im going to replace them yearly now... way too important for one to just brake in half.

Hatch is back on the road now. Big thanks to Mike and Tim for the parts.

Dave

BlackMale · Post by **BlackMale** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:03 am

SuBaRiNo wrote:Bog thanks to Mike and Tim for the parts.
Dave

Now is that a typo or something that we just need to see? :P

SuBaRiNo · Post by **SuBaRiNo** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:12 pm

Damn it... the "i" and "o" keys are way to close to each other.

Dave

BlackMale · Post by **BlackMale** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:48 pm

luck u missed the u then.