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I had both spindles on, everything torqued, tires mounted, and was juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust about ready to drop the truck off the lift when luckily I was informed about a known issue of 2005 and newer Tacoma spindles cracking just above the hub body. I am very glad someone reached out to tell me this because I was about ready to call the project a wrap.

Obviously I had to act on this info so off everything came and Rocky whipped up some make shift gusseting that I have no doubt will get me through the summer, and then some











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