!@#$%^ spindle

[HeavyMetal72]

Fricked up my passanger side spindle. D44 8 lug. Threads are damaged. anyone ever had any luck salvaging a cross-threaded spindle. Do they make a die or thread chaser?

 

[resurrected_jimmy]

thread file comes to mind if you only messed up the outer threads

 

[sweetk30]

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/tools.asp?tool=hand&Group_ID=2858&store=snapon-store

or just get a new used one.

big bolt on lockouts ? or internal lockouts ? makes a diffrence. if internal then 6-8 lug even 10 bolt will swap.

 

[sbyarlay]

I've fixxed one with a thread file to get off the hill but didn't trust it. So i replaced with a junk yard spindle. If it's just the end thats messed up you could prob run it. As long as the nut was on good threads.

 

[HeavyMetal72]

They are the big external lockouts. I took the spindlle off and I am going to take it to a machine shop to see if they can clean up the threads. I tried a thread file, but the first few thread are too folded over to straighten out. LMC wants 225 shipped for a new one. GFound some off roading sites that have new 1/2 ton stuff for 89 bucks. That set from snap on looks very usefull, but I'll see what the machinest says. Thanks for all the input. Makes frick'en up more bearable!

 

[wasted wages]

If its just the first few threads,,,take a dremmel tool to it....or grind them down with a die grinder or angle grinder.....

Hell,, I've cleaned them up with a hacksaw blade with a duct tape handle on the trail before...