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Originally Posted by Superman
One more thing: The spindle-fell-off story is perhaps the most frightening car story I have ever heard. Cars are designed fairly fail-safe. Brakes don't just fail catastrophically. There is no redundancy with spindles. This is why we never repair them. Spindle welding is a no-no.
The weight of a front axle on an old 911 is miniscule and there would be even less pressure on a front tire if it were wedged upward into the wheel well. Making it barely possible to drive one with a broken spindle, I see. That story makes me shiver.
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I've had the lower ball joint on an old 911 separate on me. Since all the weight is supported by the torsion bar and the lower arm, when the ball joint pops out of the socket, the wheel collapses up into the fender.
Fortunately, I was close to home, and it happened at slow speed, so I walked home, put a skateboard/dolly something under the right front and drove it home on a skateboard.