Suspension lift gone wrong

[Silverado4x4]

What do you think, ball joint let go then snapped the axle?  Happened in LA.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/tire-shoots-off-truck-and-flips-car-on-los-angeles-freeway/vi-AA196uSC?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=4aa19294bc5c4b2994404592e9668753&ei=50

[diyer2]

My quess is wheel spacers done wrong.

[Gangly]

1 hour ago, diyer2 said:

My quess is wheel spacers done wrong.

I would agree.

[Traction]

could be as simple as not torqueing the lugnuts properly. 

[GETGONE]

There's nothing attached to the wheel, so the lugs came loose or the studs broke.

[sharkeysierra]

5 minutes ago, GETGONE said:

There's nothing attached to the wheel, so the lugs came loose or the studs broke.

I can see a rotor and caliper, dont think it was studs/lugnuts

[Black02Silverado]

To me if you look close, it looks like the rotor is still attached to the wheel.

 

Edited March 27, 2023 by Black02Silverado

[GETGONE]

7 minutes ago, sharkeysierra said:

I can see a rotor and caliper, dont think it was studs/lugnuts

That's not possible unless it's a 2wd. The 4x4 axle holds the spindle/brakes together and the axle bolts to the front axle.

[sharkeysierra]

19 minutes ago, GETGONE said:

That's not possible unless it's a 2wd. The 4x4 axle holds the spindle/brakes together and the axle bolts to the front axle.

It is very well possible as there is a wheel bearing behind the rotor that would keep the rotor in place. 

 

Look/pause it at 56 seconds. Hard to deny there is a rotor.

[bersh]

[asilverblazer]

Looks like it was a hub/unit bearing failure. That is the only way the rotor stays with the wheel. CV shaft probably came apart at the outer joint. 

[BIGDOGx]

19 hours ago, asilverblazer said:

Looks like it was a hub/unit bearing failure. That is the only way the rotor stays with the wheel. CV shaft probably came apart at the outer joint. 

Probably a cheap lift kit improperly installed, I can't believe how it launched that car next to it in the air. I would say it's a very safe estimate that for every good mechanic or installer there are 10 hacks!

[Silverado4x4]

49 minutes ago, BIGDOGx said:

Probably a cheap lift kit improperly installed, I can't believe how it launched that car next to it in the air. I would say it's a very safe estimate that for every good mechanic or installer there are 10 hacks!

Very true. Back in my 1987 lifted truck days I would see people riding around with 6" blocks on their front leaf spring axle a disaster waiting to happen. With the guy who lost the tire there were so many parts flying around my guess is CV axle hub assembly let go but before falling off the guy had to know something wasn't right way before it happened, clunking, vibration etc.

[richard wysong]

I lost a tire off a trailer 1 night  about 2 am in pouring rain so I looked and could not find it, put the spare on by taking lug nuts off the other side and turned around and went back to the shop to get another spare and lug nuts about 2 hours later I went back the same way and there was a wreck in the same area I lost the tire. A tractor trailer was in the woods and it looked like a car was involved as well on the opposite side of the divided hi-way from where the tire came off. I wonder to this day if they "found" the missing tire

[diyer2]

I hope the truck driver is caught for it.