$2500 9" taken down by $0.50 nut!

[Shmirgin44]

While driving this evening, the car felt a bit "wishy-washy".

When I would come to a complete stop the car seemed to rock side-to-side as well as back and forth. I had an oppotunity to run a SRT-10 viper up to silly speeds and put about 3 cars on him so I figured I was just being paranoid. No sooner than 10 min later and I was about to line up against a new CTS-V when I heard a HORRIBLE rubbing/grinding sound and tire smoke.

Limped the car home, got the jack under it and determined that the main bolt that secures the rear end on the passenger side was basically fully backed out!!!

Luckily the only fallout I can see is a 2" wide, 3/4" deep dent in the passenger exhaust from the tire and the carnage the inner passenger rear received courtesy of my non rolled fender.

I know this could have turned out alot worse so I'm not really too pissed, but still WTF?!

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[04suprchrgd]

I broke the pass side upper control arm in half and the car felt the same but no other damage. that's crazy!
Get the Wolfe upper spherical bushings on it

 

[Wiked03]

That coulda been ugly... luckily it wasn't too bad. Fix it for saturday

 

[Shmirgin44]

Already on it! Going to tap that fugger back in place and secure with a new locknut and blue loctite! I am a little worried about the tire now since there is a pretty deep groove on the inner sidewall that's not visible in the pic. I'll road test tomorrrow after work and report back. I still can't believe that shit is hanging by a thread and the car is pretty much otherwise OK! If I didn't have the bigass tires on it, I may not have noticed until the rear end fell out...

 

[Bigturbonotch]

get the wolfe sphericals

 

[Shmirgin44]

get the wolfe sphericals

Do they have to be pressed in or can I manhandle them in by hand?

Will the OD on them match up with the ID on the moser bracket?

They do look like a much better solution

 

[Bigturbonotch]

you just tap them in with a brass hammer then screw the large nut on. yes they should fit if everything is in the stock location may want to call moser to be safe. good luck!

 

[IZZy]

That coulda been ugly... luckily it wasn't too bad.

+1000

 

[Bob_Kurgan]

get the sphericals... shoot me an email and i can have them drop shipped.. You dont need loctite, just locking nuts and check your shit every once in a while!

 

[Shmirgin44]

get the sphericals... shoot me an email and i can have them drop shipped.. You dont need loctite, just locking nuts and check your shit every once in a while!

Awesome!!

 

[Flyn]

Seeing the wheel and tire rolling past you would have been worse. One of my employees and my dad have had that happen with our trucks. We don't go to Tire Services in Palos anymore...

Buy a new tire to prevent a future blow out.

 

[Shmirgin44]

Seeing the wheel and tire rolling past you would have been worse. One of my employees and my dad have had that happen with our trucks. We don't go to Tire Services in Palos anymore...

Buy a new tire to prevent a future blow out.

You must get your car worked on at the same place Jimbo does.

I am going to call tire rack to order a new set today...resisting all urge to run at the track tomorrow, dont wanna put it in the wall

 

[SONICobra]

wow, thats some scary shit right there... glad everything worked out so its not too bad. told ya, gotta watch out for those tires getting chewed up, hans should be able to get you hooked up though!

 

[Shmirgin44]

wow, thats some scary shit right there... glad everything worked out so its not too bad. told ya, gotta watch out for those tires getting chewed up, hans should be able to get you hooked up though!

Ironically, I am glad they got chewed up a bit or I may not have noticed the rear end was about to fall out till it was too late...

Ill have Hans roll the damn fenders when I have it in for my cage install next month:biggthump

 

[SONICobra]

Ill have Hans roll the damn fenders when I have it in for my cage install next month:biggthump

:headbang:

 

[Smokey1226]

Thank God it wasn't worse!

 

[stunuts]

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sure glad you didn't have anything bad happen!

 

[Shmirgin44]

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sure glad you didn't have anything bad happen!

Me too...when I got it up, I spent about 5 min checking the shocks to make sure they were on the same stifness setting and was beginning to scratch my head...I got the flashlight out and looked up there and my stomach just dropped. I think the subframe connectors and misc bracing saved my ass.

 

[batman]

wow good thing you fixed it

 

[Shmirgin44]

Bob hooking it up again! Thanks man!!

 

[Flyn]

Me too...when I got it up, I spent about 5 min checking the shocks to make sure they were on the same stifness setting and was beginning to scratch my head...I got the flashlight out and looked up there and my stomach just dropped. I think the subframe connectors and misc bracing saved my ass.

Someone's looking out for you. :biggthump

 

[Shmirgin44]

Slightly off topic, but all the extra bubber strewn about got me thinking. What kind of tape do you guys use for the rear quarters when at the track? Just regular old painters tape? I want to make sure I am not ruining the clear coat when I peel it off.

 

[staticki]

Slightly off topic, but all the extra bubber strewn about got me thinking. What kind of tape do you guys use for the rear quarters when at the track? Just regular old painters tape? I want to make sure I am not ruining the clear coat when I peel it off.

3m painters tape (its green) works the best.

Glad you caught it when u did:biggthump