{"id":3860,"date":"2018-08-14T18:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2018-08-14T18:45:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:45:03","slug":"8-99-cracked-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/8-99-cracked-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"8.99 – Cracked wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series 08 - Wheels \/ Axles<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

During the annual condition inspection this year, I was tightening the three screws which hold the brake disc onto the wheels.\u00a0 One of them was not tightening.\u00a0 I thought that maybe I had stripped the head.<\/p>\n

Turns out the threads in the wheel are what got stripped.<\/p>\n

I called Matco to see if a helicoil was an approved fix. While waiting for a callback from an engineer, I pulled the wheel because whether I could use a helicoil or had to replace the wheel, it was going to have to come off anyway.<\/p>\n

Once it was off, I looked at the hole and decided that replacement was the only option.<\/p>\n

\"2018-08-14<\/a><\/p>\n

The crack around the hole makes fixing it a non-starter.<\/p>\n

When I spoke to Matco, they said that if I sent them the wheel that they would replace the half with the crack for $90.<\/p>\n

So off it went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series 08 - Wheels \/ Axles<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

During the annual condition inspection this year, I was tightening the three screws which hold the brake disc onto the wheels.\u00a0 One of them was not tightening.\u00a0 I thought that maybe I had stripped the head. Turns out the threads … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"series":[32],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-51","series-08-wheels-axles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}