Gotta Start somewhere…

[Kevin Stillwagon]

Funny you should ask, I'm in the process of returning both the knuckles I got back to CARiD. According to them MOOG does not make spindles for our vehicles.

Wrong part numbers are these: MOOG® LK011 - Front Driver Side Steering Knuckle Assembly & MOOG® LK012 - Front Passenger Side Steering Knuckle Assembly
Again these are the wrong ones, do not buy these.

They are about 1.5 mm too small, I thought about keeping them and pressing out the bearings and hubs and get speed ones but no such luck. I'll get pics posted soon about which one are which. But looks like a no joy situation. I bought a used one from the salvage yard in Maine and it kinda sucks putting old parts on just to get her road worth only to take it all down later. I was eyeballing the ford fusion/milan/zephyr awd because you can find those new but it comes down to sizing for the hubs and bearings.

Thanks for the heads up. Mine are rusty AF, but I can clean them up and resuse the knuckles. I'll have to get new dust shields and bearings (which are probably good, but what the hell, I have the damn thing all apart) then paint them and put them back on. All new control arms and tie rods, but they come in a set.

On a related note, I have a 2010 6 and need rear trailing arm bushings. Mazda doesn't supply just the bushing, you have to buy the entire arm for only 441 each. So I'm avoiding all things OEM....

 

[Westbound]

No prob man! I'm trying to to the same thing, prep/prime/paint (PPP) what I can, so I don't have to worry about it again, sigh... LOL