Well I have an update on the car.
I went to pick the car up last night from Gearhead garage and was driving it home and on the freeway I lost the left rear wheel. I was doing about 65-70 when there was a violent shake and the wheel broke all 5 studs and left. I was able to maneuver it to the side of the road, but there will be no show for my car this weekend. Thankfully the cal track bars saved the car. It used them as a ski so I was able to fight the car where I wanted on the freeway, to the right side of the road. Damage. There is some small crack on the body inner fender wall. The cal track bar is destroyed, the Wheel is destroyed, and the left axel is destroyed. I called Jason since I was so close and he came out with his tow guys and his crew, got it loaded on the flat bed trailed and we took it back to the shop. The diagnoses was that there was gear grease on the wheel itself and there was a lot of play in the axel. It looks like it broke a bearing. I'm more then curious how this could have happened. I bought the rear-end from "biggearhead" on the camaro.net forums, and it came without axels pressed in. Jason wanted them shipped that way, and then Jason had them pressed in. How could this have happened? Does anyone have a clue of what might have gone wrong? I'm afraid to drive the thing at this point. I'm very lucky that’s, all that happened, I thought that I was going to take someone out, as the car was going out of control, but I got lucky. I just need to know what the hell happened?!
Mike
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