85triz

Ok, so I'm in the middle of rebuilding my knuckles and am about to put my spindles backs on when I noticed they have 2 different style bushings. The drivers side has a male bushing pressed onto the stub shaft and a bore in the spindle that it rides in, while the other side has a female bushing with grease channels in the spindle and nothing on the stub shaft. Is this normal, or did someone swap the birf/spindle out of another yota? maybe broke the birf and this was in the donor? And I cant find any info on how much grease to use for these. Thats what the square plug in the knuckle is for, right?

Brenjen

If I were to guess I'd say the bushing that's "pressed onto the stub shaft" is actually the same as the other, only seized onto the spindle due to a lack of lube.

85triz

so it is...had I known this thing needed a new truck installed under the old one, I wouldnt have been so easy on the asking price...

Brenjen

lol...the PO wasn't too keen on maintenance apparently, look at it this way...the Toyota design allowed it to keep moving even though on another vehicle it probably wouldn't have. If that were a regular roller bearing, it would have been all shredded & locked up most likley

thebeesknees

Does anyone know where to get the outer spindle bushings? I can find the inner ones but not outer ones