Thread: A Bad Crash

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Wow, that's horrible. They must have really smacked into the old ladies car to do that much damage and also to kill them both. So sorry to hear about this one too. I feel terribly for the victims and the families.

I'm taking mine out for a little drive today and I sure will have these tragedies on my mind as I am out there. As a side note, I sure hope all these recent incidents don't start some legislators thinking hot rods shouldn't be on the roads. We all know how they love to pass laws to justify their existence.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Wow, that's horrible. They must have really smacked into the old ladies car to do that much damage and also to kill them both. So sorry to hear about this one too. I feel terribly for the victims and the families.

I'm taking mine out for a little drive today and I sure will have these tragedies on my mind as I am out there. As a side note, I sure hope all these recent incidents don't start some legislators thinking hot rods shouldn't be on the roads. We all know how they love to pass laws to justify their existence.

Don

Yeah,Don..they dont need the ammunition,but,how many hotrods are involved in smashes,in comparison to regular cars??

I am thinking seriously about running at least a 6 point cage in my '46 ..... I'll see when I get the seats set up. Mat be more ....

To bad on the Nevada crash.

REGS

The older we get, the more sobering this information. When we're young, we think we're bulletproof, then we find out we're not. I've built a 454-powered "A" sedan, an 8.50/175 mph Super Comp car, a high-10's GTO, and my current lowboy. I have confidence in my work, but I'm always thinking about the all those bolts that I tightened and all the welds I made. Did I get them all right? When I take the coupe out of storage in three years (sigh!), every bolt and nut is going to get another going-over.

The worst that ever happened to me was a rear 4-bar bracket on the rear axle of the A-bone that folded up when I hit second gear. It tilted the pinion up quit a bit and skewed the rear axle out of line, but I got it stopped without incident. If that had been third gear and a lot more speed . . . well, I hate to think about it.

I wish the gentleman in the yellow roadster a complete recovery.

unfortunately we buy parts and don't know where they come from. So many venders today sell junk made in China and such and the people in those countries really don't care if we die.

Looks more so an issue with the axle .... it was made by???? All the other pieces look & appear to be intact.

REGS

is that an aluminum axle?????

To me .... based on the area that it broke at it sure looks cast (steel). I might be wrong but I don't see aluminum being that "grainy".

REGS

It looked to be cast aluminum to me too, when i looked at it, the color even looks aluminum

I'm having dinner with him next Friday.
Ken

If this was an aluminum axle---where it is broke could have been caused by a fatique crack from a nick from a jack stand as that is probably exactly where a stand would be placed and also when you mount a beam axle with either split wishbones/4 bars to outside of frame rails vs a single point underneath like the car was designed(1930s) you subject it to a tremendous amount of twisting which would tend to break exactly where this one is broken===

If it is chromed, could hydrogen imbrittlement be a factor?

Don

The right spindle and kingpin are missing (as in completely gone) from the two photo's.

The broken axle could have been "the result" of the crash and possibly not "the cause" if the axle kingpin boss or the spindle broke.

Broken cast steel looks just like the photo when it's freshly broken, but rusts up in a day or two.

If you look at my thread,"One way to total a '32 Roadster" and look at the front axle of that car they are all pretty similar. This car belongs to a fellow club member so I know first hand there were no failures. When the car flipped it's first contact with the ground was the right front wheel and the axle snapped. I don't think this would be a bad product or inferior metal when you consider the weight of a steel '32 roadster several feet off the ground landing on that corner of the car. Just my 2 cents.
Ken

However---the visable evidence of the broken parts COULD of caused the car to flip---

This car appears to have high polished parts including aircraft qual clevises, etc--no room for any movement of parts as with rubber bushed bars--result-every steering or suspension movement puts a tremendous load on the total sum of the assy---failure will occur at the end of the longest unit, weakest point, or a stress risor type nick--

Is this an ALUMINUM axle??? has it ever been on jack stands???