Re: Broken spring mount?

[Tom Mandera <tsm1@domain.elided>]

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Bill Thebert wrote:

> Your broken spring mount is not an uncommon failure.  We wrote about that
> very failure in Volume 1, Number 3 (January 1996) of the Binder Bulletin.

I've heard this failure *several* times... now, if I only had a welder of 
my own, this wouldn't have happened... 

> Oddly it was on a pretty modest part of the trail after having just
> completed Red Cone Mountain.  The front shackle folded completely forward,
> driving the tire into the part of the fender that is normally in front of
> the tire.

Same here.  The hard stuff was over, we were on our way back to the 
county road.. no idea what caused it, but it just rolled forward, tearing 
a slice from the side of the frame with it, and putting the tire right 
into the front part of the fender (the very same part I had done some 
minor trimming to, making the lip into a "V" instead of an "L").  Now I 
have to go back and grind MORE from the driver's side fender (front 
front) and then cut the passenger side to match. :-)

I'm afraid to go in for my 6,000 mile tire rotation... the tire guys are 
gonna look at me awfully funny... between the chews on the front tires 
from not adjust the turn stops enough, last weekend's fender rubbing up 
front, and the various occasions I've put the rear tires into the rear of 
the fender... plus the rock cuts and scratches... 

I feel much better knowing I have 4000 miles on my new tires now.. they 
don't look much worse than they did at 60 miles!  ;)

-Tom Mandera, Helena MT
http://www.tmcom.com/~tsm1/scout
'72 and '77 Scout IIs