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Old Aug 1, 2015 | 12:24 PM
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Is there such a thing as a left and right front spindle? I'm not talking about the entire assembly, just the spindle itself. I'm about to put it all back together and I don't see any different in the spindles, but I don't want to take a chance of getting them backwards.
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I just looked at mine and they do look identical. I would think that if they were different there would be a casting number on them to indicate left or right.
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I did see some casing numbers and they were different, however I don't think these are part numbers or anything. One was something like "4B" and the other one was different.
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Hi,
Only one part number for the front 'knuckle' indicates there is no right or left. The knuckle is symmetrical.
The steering arm makes them a right or left.
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don`t forget the caliper brackets...left & right on those also
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True!
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I found the caliper brackets to be direction pretty easily along with the casting notation. I was pretty sure the spindles were the same on both sides, just wasn't 100% sure.

Hopefully next week I will be putting it all back together again and it will be on the road for this fall.
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