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Originally Posted by danw210
Well I took the spindles to the 4x4 shop in town and he suggests that I take the axles to a machine shop and have them turned down to fit the 72 spindles. The amount of material to be cut is probably a few hundredths of an inch. Does anyone see a problem with this approach?
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danw210,
Here is what I ended up doing for mine. Like I said, I located an extra pair of outer stubs for a closed knuckle front driving axle, then sent those off to a machine shop to have them turned down a hair in order to fit the later model spindle with bearing rather than the bronze bushing.
I will likely end making the truck original and reinstalling drum brakes, but I had this done just in case I couldn't find parts or decided to keep the disks. As you can see, the spindle bearing fits just fine on the stub after work has been done on it. I hope this helps.
The other picture shows what i found when I originally took mine apart. The outer axle stub was jammed into the bearing and while it would spin/rotate just fine, the stub was actuall stuck within the spindle bearing and had jammed the bearing pretty far into the spindle when the previous mechanic made the swap.
Jonathon