Help Spindle Problem

[jimc]

i messed up my rear axle spindles. I was able to locate a set from a salvage yard, but its not the same, the bolt pattern is just off.. mine is a 92, and has the cotter pin, and castle nut, the one I got from the junk yard has the stake nut, no cotter pin.. the Haynes manual is not real clear on what year has what.. has anyone tried to rethread one? or know where to find a set with the cotter pin? Thanks..

[Pu241]

I was able to locate a set from a salvage yard, but its not the same, the bolt pattern is just off.. mine is a 92, and has the cotter pin, and castle nut, the one I got from the junk yard has the stake nut, no cotter pin.. the Haynes manual is not real clear on what year has what.. has anyone tried to rethread one? or know where to find a set with the cotter pin? Thanks..

Do you mean thread pattern?
Spindles do no have bolt patterns.

The stake nut can be use in place of a castellated nut/washer/cotter pin assembly, or you can use a drill press an drill the needed hole in spindle in the correct location and re-use your castellated nut assembly.
Stake/crush nuts came on 88 thru about mid '92, before the factory switched to the castellated nut assembly.

You are aware that the passenger side spindle is left hand threaded and the driver-side is a regular right hand threaded.
you are not going to put a right hand threaded nut on left hand threaded spindle.

[jimc]

no, the bolts on the mounting plate don't match up with my brake backplate and axle end, its off on two holes by like an 1/8th inch.. If I can't rethread the bad ones, or find the right ones, I'm thinking to just drilling out the holes and bolt the new ones up with some bigger bolts.. thoughts on that?

[Pu241]

Sounds like an Aspire Spindle.

Need a pic.

Spindle should have studs in them and you would need the NUTs, not bolts, that thread onto those studs.
With either washers or flair nuts.

[jimc]

spindles

yup, I have everything all tore apart... it is possible that it's an aspire, I know the brakes are, but i thought the axle was festiva.... are the stud patterns different? that would explain alot.. is the spindle thread patter the same? i just ordered both the right and left handed dies for the m16 x 1.5, which are what the new spindle nuts i got from napa are, but now i'm wonding if they are what I need for my spindles? :-(.. i'll take some pictures of everything and get them on here.. thanks a bunch for helping me figure this out. i just want to get it back on the road..

[Larry Hampton]

Look at my pics of the other thread about the rear drum brake swap. The Festiva spindles have a rectangular pattern and can be placed b on either side and groove up or down. The Aspire spindles have the dangle and the stud at the dangle is further outboard. They only go on one way on one side.

[Basement_Modder]

Use a thread file. You can rent one in most McParts tap and dye sets. Trust me, it works... If it fixed my spindle (totally destroyed) it will fix yours.

[jimc]

axle

that's sure looks like my axle.. that's an aspire axel? my spindle plate does have the dangle.. from what I read on that other thread it sounds like the spindle threads are the same for both the festiva and aspire.. I can't find the castle nuts anywhere but the stake nuts are pretty available, so they should work on mine... I'm gonna try to rethread my spindles.. I'm just waiting for the dies. are the aspire spindles hard to find? thanks..

[jimc]

Use a thread file. You can rent one in most McParts tap and dye sets. Trust me, it works... If it fixed my spindle (totally destroyed) it will fix yours.

cool, that's encouraging, thanks... I was hoping to rent the dies from autozone, but theirs only went up to 12m.. I had a hard time finding the dies, but finally found them both on Amazon. pretty cheap too.. $35 for both the LH & RH including shipping.. I'm really hoping I can fix them.. what is a thread file? I read on one forum about someone using a hacksaw to rethread some spindles, a bit larger axels, but that sounds pretty hard core...

[Basement_Modder]

A thread file is a special file that has grooves in it to fit between the threads and reshape them. The rental tap and dye from auto zone has 3 of them with 8 thread pitches each. I used the 1.50 mm side.

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[jimc]

I got it.. used the thread file to get the die started and was able to rethread both sides... I'm back on the road.. thanks for all the advice.