My Indy top end crash photos

[Jeff Colvert]

Originally Posted by Bill Harris

Sorry to see your nice car get hammered. Did you figure out what went wrong? Anything you can share that other racers can check their cars? I remember a while ago when someone lost their brakes and wrecked due to the pedal push rod coming out of the master cylinder on launch. When I checked my car, it was possible for the same thing to happen.

Yeah Bill when I first built the car had the same problem and built a rod that wouldn't come out of the master cylinder but was a two piece design that had a set screw holding the rod in the piece on the pedal was up in the piece about a inch and after nearly 30 years set screw came out no telling how long it had been that way. Roll pin would have solved the problem or some loctite, just my bad as they say.