[DeTomaso] The wheel that fell off

[robert stewart]

Sometime back I described my trip back from the fun rally including the part where my back drivers side wheel fell off at 60 mph .

I have been  traveling since then but finally got a chance to look at the car. Well the hub carrier took a pretty good beating. I had installed a zerk on the bottom of the hub carrier. All of the external portion of the zerk is gone and I would estimate that at least a 1/4 inch of the the outer edge of the hub carrier has been ground flat. At least a full 1/3 of the cap at the  end of the bolt that goes through the hub carrier is gone. There doesn't appear to be any other damage. ( except a good size dent in the wheel well.

So does anyone have a hub carrier they would like to sell?

A compounding issue is that I installed corvette rear brakes which work great. However the I used the stock studs that I thought were just long enough. In hindsight I think they need to be longer. Does anyone know a source of longer studs?

Thanks

Rob