Possibly a bad spindle?
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Joined: May 2005
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From: Burbank WA
Possibly a bad spindle?
Pulled the hub off and found this. 
I think that the spindle is kaput, but I am looking for a second opinion.. One is the right spindle, the other the left...
Thanks!
I think that the spindle is kaput, but I am looking for a second opinion.. One is the right spindle, the other the left...Thanks!
Team Owner
Joined: Jul 1999
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From: Orange Park Florida
Take some fine sandpaper and run it over like an old tyme shoe shine guy...or polishing a copper pipe for sweating....use something fine....no worse than say 400 grit....see if it polishes up nice without a whole lot of effort...
may want to take some carb cleaner to it first, hard to tell from a pix,but it maybe just a grease stain, and nothing to worry over....
may want to take some carb cleaner to it first, hard to tell from a pix,but it maybe just a grease stain, and nothing to worry over....
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: Boca Raton Florida
I agree with these guys, nothing to really worry about as long as the spinle isn't bent. Remember, the bearing does not run on the spindle, it runs on the race. You should have seen the one on my 77, the inner bearing race was broken when I got it and the spingle was galled badly, I cleaned it up with some jewelers file and put in new bearings, good to go
