Skip to main content

Reply to "Thunder Ranch build thread"

@Jimmy V. posted:

I arrived home from buying a rear axle/differential assembly for a chevy truck to find that I lost a brake drum someplace along the 100 mile expressway trip. It terrified me to think of a 10lb brake drum flying off the back of my trailer at 70MPH. I hope it didn't harm someone's vehicle. I hadn't considered that the brake drums were just sitting on the studs with nothing holding them on.

I got you beat. After I bought a three tier tire rack for the storage unit where I keep my 968, I decided to take all the Alfa wheels and the OEM 16" 968 wheels out of the place I keep my Spyder and use as a shop. Somewhere in the five miles between the units, my shoddy tie down job let one of the Porsche alloys fall off!

I retraced my route 3 times and no sign of it anywhere. I nervously awaited the "we got your fingerprints off the wheel that totaled my car and we need your insurance information" phone call for about a week.

More likely someone saw it fall off and grabbed it and put it on eBay. 

×
×
×
×
×