DIRTY STUFF
Feb 26, 2020
3 minutes
WILLIAM PORKER
YOU wouldn’t reckon, what with all those precision high-tensile bolts, that flywheels could ever come loose and explode, but they sure do. Castiron flywheels are notorious for this, which is why the officials keeping blokes safe at the quarter-mile drags insist that a solid steel scattershield be fitted around the clutch housing. That way, when a flywheel lets go the shield is there to catch all the bits instead of them chopping off your legs.
Clutches are not immune
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