A frame or Panhard

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Countryboy wrote:The road wheel is transmitting load/impacts to the lower fulcrum pin . The telescopic damper and I'm guessing uprated coil Spring are more effectively resisting those loads/impacts . In the end somethings got to give...
Insufficient spring or damper force often results in suspension travelling to full bump (metal to rubber) or jounce (metal to metal if rubber stop fails). Both transmit much greater loads and hence component stress than springs or dampers, especially the hard shock impact suffered by jounce contact.

Wheel kerbing is another common high stress impact, which could have instigated these wishbone pan cracks.
Countryboy wrote:I wonder if these cracks would happen suddenly or if you were really lucky your MOT tester might spot them :whistle:
Probably not under all the road grime, especially as crack initiation to failure would take much less than a year (when we had MOTs)... :roll:

Seems we've returned again to the wheels falling off... :mrgreen:
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All this is making me nervous about ever taking my car out again.
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I'll do you a deal Dave, I'll swap that modified car of yours for my safe unmolested original.
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Wondering if wheel spacers might contribute to failing wheel nut seats. Many have larger holes that the stud, especially the universal ones, so that would mean no solid base to bolt down to. Over-tightening and the use of impact drivers to put wheels back may now be a factor?

I've only use spacers on one car and that was our old Midget. It had 5" Cosmic alloys which for some reason caused the tyres to slightly foul on something behind .. memory isn't what it was .. and so I fitted slim spacers on the front to add clearance. Those wheels had steel nut seat inserts. I remember one dropping out! :shock:

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gazza82 wrote:Wondering if wheel spacers might contribute to failing wheel nut seats. Many have larger holes that the stud, especially the universal ones, so that would mean no solid base to bolt down to.
Spacers and wheel nut seats are critical to those nuts staying torqued.

We use spacers on the racers. Best sort physically attach to the hub. Rigid loose spacers are satisfactory but far from ideal. All starts going wrong if you attempt to fit two spacers under one wheel, which prompts the wheel nuts to loosen. Don't really understand why but probably related to degraded friction drive between wheel and hub faces (nuts merely provide clamp load).

Same cone angles between seat and wheel nut, and consistent stud PCD between hub and wheel are also critical. Never bodge it :!:
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Dave Clark wrote:All this is making me nervous about ever taking my car out again.
Ever looked at FMEA :?: Failure Modes Effects and Analysis: all the ways things can go wrong and consequences of those failures, catastrophic or otherwise. Focuses the mind... :thumbs:
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