FORDMOTO
07-22-2004, 08:20 PM
Bent a spindle and they are on back order, after pressing out the steel spindle from the aluminum housing and measuring dimensions and then doing same with a 400EX spindle low and behold they are identical, pressed 400EX steel spindle into 450R aluminum housing and now we are rolling again, Just thought we would pass this on in case someone is waiting for a spindle as we are, is a press fit application so see no real hazard in doing this swap, we did it in the machine shop with a quality press, our aluminum housing was fine and all of the bend was in the steel spindle so this was an easy fix