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Experienced Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Advanced Members Posts: 1,019 Joined: 18-September 04 From: State College, PA Member No.: 462 ![]() |
I was at Summit Point yesterday for FATT. During my 2nd heat I had my left front hub fail. It let loose in turn 5-6 or so, and if you know Summit, that's about the slowest part of the track. Which is right after the part of the track with the highest pucker factor IMO (downhill at 80-100 depending, about a 30 degree turn a little off camber and max braking soon as you're through it). So I am OK and there is no body damage.
The hub flange sheared right off, and the wheel getting pushed back it must have bent up either the brake caliper or the slide pins, the caliper doesn't float any more. A guy with a TA next to me thankfully had a spare hub, so I got that on and drove carefully home. This was a Mike Minear hub so I'm contacting him to see if he wants to inspect it. I'll probably get a new one from him over the winter. I'm thankful that was all relatively low drama. If that happened almost anywhere else on track, well all the other places are pretty high speed, and it would've been a real wreck, literally. Chris |
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Experienced Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Advanced Members Posts: 1,019 Joined: 18-September 04 From: State College, PA Member No.: 462 ![]() |
There wasn't really much warning. In fact there was no definitely noise or vibration or anything. I was thinking that the brake pedal felt a tad longer than usual, but since the brakes always had more travel with those pads I did not give it a lot of thought. Hindsight though, says maybe I should have; but I don't know that I would have thought my hub was going to shear off. There was also, from looking at the parts, no visible way to have seen any problem with it at all. I'd say it's one of those failures that I could not have planned for nor avoided.
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