This weekend was going well, enjoying the new engine in the '66, went down to a friends house to pick up my TKO which I'm trading for a 700r4 for the Elco. Packed it all up, strapped it down in the bed and headed home.
I got fifty feet when this happened.
I talked to Jeff Smith at Car Craft, he says believe it or not this isnt all that uncommon with early a-bodies, it almost happened to him, only he saw the crack on his lower a-arm before it had a chance to fail like mine.
So if you have an older elco, with the original 40+ year old control arms, it might not be a bad idea to just crawl under and inspect for cracks around your ball joint.
A friend told me, man if you didnt have bad luck you'd have no luck at all....the way I look at it, I had tons of luck, it happened at less than a mile per hour - the only body damage was the already poor chrome trim, if this had happened on the freeway at 70+ mph - I could be a dead man.
I got fifty feet when this happened.
I talked to Jeff Smith at Car Craft, he says believe it or not this isnt all that uncommon with early a-bodies, it almost happened to him, only he saw the crack on his lower a-arm before it had a chance to fail like mine.
So if you have an older elco, with the original 40+ year old control arms, it might not be a bad idea to just crawl under and inspect for cracks around your ball joint.
A friend told me, man if you didnt have bad luck you'd have no luck at all....the way I look at it, I had tons of luck, it happened at less than a mile per hour - the only body damage was the already poor chrome trim, if this had happened on the freeway at 70+ mph - I could be a dead man.