Spindle crack

Well I have been busy on my front end rebuild. After cleaning up the parts I decided to take a close look at everything. I appears that one, the inner bearing race has been rotating and cut a groove in the surface the bearing seats against. Upon a closer look, I found a crack going around the base of the spindle shaft. Here are a couple of pic's. I hope the crack showes up. Its just a reminder to inspect all parts closely as you work on the vette. Unless you bought the vette new, you never know what its been through.

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It's rare to see a cracked spindle.  That's scary.  Glad you caught it.

Rare, indeed!! I can't remember ever seeing a cracked spindle!
Good job of catching that one!!

I was sure surprised as well. At first I thought it was just part of the area wore away by the bearing back spinning. The bearing actually cut a trough of about 1/16 of an inch. As I wiped the grease out of the trough I picked up a couple of small slivers. I started looking at it closer and the line was not concentric with the shaft and it was some what jagged. This led me to believe it was a crack. The only other thing I could think of is that the knuckle is a 2 piece weldment and the bearing wore through part of the welded section. Which is making the joint area visible. The other knuckle has a trough as well from the bearing's inner race spinning but not as deep. So it looks like I will be replacing both. Any recommendations were to find them. Mid America has recondition ones and Van Steel has them as well. Van Steel is twice the price so I think there's may be new. The list of parts I will need keeps growing every day. Maybe I need to take a vacation so the list will stop growing.