Airdog
Did Your Mom
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2018
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Kind of a shitty failure while driving on a highway in afternoon traffic. Didn't die though!!
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One of the causes (maybe a main one), not bolting down a brake line bracket after installing a reinforced spindle. My bad, I guess...
Have to get longer bolts
That is the exact reason Johnstons broke....he failed to bolt it back to the spindle and the vibration over time snapped it. Literally another 2 minutes and it would have been on a steep downhill portion of hunter mountain in DVSame thing happened to itaro in death valley, for the same reason. Fortunately his snapped going uphill instead of a downhill section we were about to hit. We managed to flare out the end enough to get it back into the caliper without leaking, bled it some, and crawled back the way we came in 4low to find a camp for the night. @Airdog made a 3 hour round trip parts run so we could finish the rest of the trip.