My car the jinx... (pic heavy)
LiquidChaos66
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So i love my Mustang.... Her name WAS Annabelle... She is now known as Jinx. Last week i got in my car and drove to work and noticed a metal on metal noise when i turned left and when braking. Being who i was i drove to work and back home and didnt touch it till monday when i went to a shop to have it worked on. The shop performed a diagnosis, aligned my brakes, repacked and seated my bearings. The issue still happened. After doing some more work they found it to be the back of the drum rubbing on the brake backing due to a warped hub. Before i left i got the mechanics OK to drive the car and was told it was a noise issue and cause no concern to the safety or general use of my car....
This noise continued the next few days and the car was feelin fine while driving. It really was more of a noise issue from what i knew. This morning however proved to be different. I drove to work and stopped at a 7-11. The noise had been pretty consistent on my drive in. As i pulled into the 7-11 lot i heard a *BAM* as my drivers side front wheel and tire blew off my car, dropped the nose into the ground, and slid to a stop. Needless to say my car is now at a body shop and my insurance company is hard at work on my claim. I am now at home nursing aches and pains as well as a 3 inch gash on my leg from my dash.
Not more than 5 minutes before this happened i was on the freeway going 60mph. After that i was in twisty winding roads with drop offs on either side.... No other cars or people were involved. I know sure as S**T that God was watching out for me. What a morning.
This noise continued the next few days and the car was feelin fine while driving. It really was more of a noise issue from what i knew. This morning however proved to be different. I drove to work and stopped at a 7-11. The noise had been pretty consistent on my drive in. As i pulled into the 7-11 lot i heard a *BAM* as my drivers side front wheel and tire blew off my car, dropped the nose into the ground, and slid to a stop. Needless to say my car is now at a body shop and my insurance company is hard at work on my claim. I am now at home nursing aches and pains as well as a 3 inch gash on my leg from my dash.
Not more than 5 minutes before this happened i was on the freeway going 60mph. After that i was in twisty winding roads with drop offs on either side.... No other cars or people were involved. I know sure as S**T that God was watching out for me. What a morning.
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They should have caught it when the bearings were repacked.
If it wasn't caught, it was because the tech didn't look well enough or clean it well enough.
Do you see the half moon part of the spindle? That is the initial crack.
It was most likely on the bottom side of the spindle.
That is why you clean the spindle really well and inspect it on the bottom side and top.
You can see how the drum was rubbing on the top of the backing plate.
And just so you know, warped drums won't rub on the backing plate...Unless the lug nuts have come loose, then that is a whole different thing. Even then, the only time I've seen the drum rub the backing plate is when wheel bearings have come loose or the spindle cracks.
And buddy, that crack had to be pretty sizable.
This is why techs need to learn properly, instead of being trained in a classroom on computers.
When they put the hub back together and the drum was rubbing, they should have been really looking to see why. An experienced tech wouldn't have blamed the drum withouth actually measuring the drum. Which would have taken all but 5 minutes to do.
What's that? They didn't have the tools to measure it? Set it on a flat floor. You'll know right away.
The lack of experience is what caused this.
Just my opinion.
Oh yeah, you sure she's not named "Christine"?
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