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25-05-2018, 06:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 25-05-2018, 06:33 AM by Ralf Pickel.)
A friend had the reoccurrence of seeing wheels parting company with his Alvis 12/70 after he bought it.
Found out that hubs have been attached on the wrong sides......
It was his first car with centre lock hubs, so he did not have experience with those, otherwise he would have realized when refitting a wheel.
Now he knows !
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Ralf the clack clack could be related to your broken spring. FWIW I have had similar where for various reasons, the wheel stud flanges on the inner rear hub were fouling the brake cam and also gradually filed away the brake spring - hence also broken spring.
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David - thank you but has been repaired already.
It was the spring.
Assumed it from the beginning, had the same before on a Jag XK120 years ago. Almost the same sound...was at the wrong time, though, on my outlap on the Nürburgring, of all places...
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What you may not know is that my father was to some extent responsible for the 750MC regulation that insisted on stout washers, not just any old penny washers, and locking nuts on Austin wheels used in competition.
He had a short stay in hospital when a rear wheel pulled over the standard nut at Silverstone. Admittedly that was an early solid centre wheel, and they are weak anyway.
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Still - in my eyes a very good improvement in terms of safety.
And not only for the track.
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The spoke lacing on your wheel is very interesting Ralf, to your own design?
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No - same as on Mrs. JoJo´s wheels.
Had it done by Richard Bros, who did it initially for the Ways.
