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  View original topic: Spindle source for '86+ vanagon?
owokie Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:10 pm

Anyone have a source for used spindles/knuckles? Trying to get my front end back together after a front end refresh and am in dire need of a passenger-side spindle. PO must have spun a bearing, shop before my ownership slapped it back together with a new bearing despite the spindle being undersized and scored. I've tried: the classifieds, ebay, facebook vog, all of the usual vendors and even a couple junkyards to no avail. You early dudes with the big brake conversions are killing me :?

Anyway, if I can't find one, I may be forced to run it. I drove it for ~5k miles like this and it seemed ok aside from radial play I had previously assumed was from the bearing itself. I'd really prefer not to gamble and to do this right. Anyone? Thanks...


Terry Kay Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:19 pm

Time to spead some squid at a machine shop, or the axle surgeon.

dobryan Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:43 am

Did you contact sleepyjoe? He lists on the classifieds and even if he does not have an ad for one he may have one in his boneyard stash somewhere.



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