[DeTomaso] Don't let this happen to you.

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Could you come to -my- house for a while?  I just need you to -touch- my 
Pantera.

:)
Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]
    
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tony DiGiovanna wrote:
> Here's one for the annuls of luck:  Two week ago, I took the Pantera for a spirited Sunday jaunt down the highway 10 miles and back through the surface roads.  As I approach a red light under normal braking, in the last 15 feet, I hear a god awful grinding sound.  Something worse than a failed wheel bearing but not as bad as the cluster gear I once broke in a Nova.  When the light turned green, I wasn't sure the car would move, but it pulled thru the intersection just fine and I pulled into a parking lot.  Initial visual turned up nothing obvious, but then I noticed my right rear brake caliper fell off.  It fell off. O-F-F It fell off!  It was still there, and connected, with no brake line damage.  Even the mounting bolts and washers were still there, but there was no denying it fell off.  I got one bolt in by hand and drove home 5 miles idling in 1st gear.
>
> Diagnosis:  One caliper mounting bolt backed out.  Once clear of carrying any shear load, the braking force on the one remaining bolt was enough to break it.  The bolts were stainless socket headed cap screws provided in the aftermarket caliper conversion kit I bought two years ago.  They are now all carbon steel socket-headed cap screws and have loctite on them.  All the bolts on the other 3 corners were still tight.
>
> In a related story, I found the 5/16 hex drive socket I lost two years ago.  How does that happen:  A torqued bolt you want to stay in, comes out, while a hex drive you accidentally leave behind stays put during the same two years?
>
> Could have been a whole, big bad, bunch worse.
>
> Tony "Lucky this time" DiGiovanna
>
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