*Check your spindle gussets for cracks with B/S talk

Cracked "Truck Shop Gussets"
The crack is on the driver side, it's not in a critical area. I'll have to grind out the cracked part of the weld and put a bead back down.

 

You are not nice to your Tacoma, we may need to re-home that little guy.

 

So now I guess its time to start a thread to check your Lower Control Arm Mounts?

Front Driver side

Front driver side rear



Front passanger side rear

 

looks like the gusset needs a gusset

 

Take it off any sweet jumps?

 

Vote for me, and all your wildest dreams will come true.

 

Looks like a pre-SAS inspection to me

 

IFS for life

 

Someone that's knows someone that owns or runs a Fab shop should talk them into designing some weld on gussets and have them make some sets for sale.
Never gonna happen, but

 

I think technically I already started one several months ago when I found my first LCA mount crack.

 

got you beat by a few years, I first posted this way back in late 2009 when I first experienced the problems shorty after my LT install.. not really something to brag about tho

 

I don’t see anything wrong here...

 

Napoleon's balls = @MonkeyProof 's suspension

 

So what's the consensus here? Do the spindle gussets really help with keeping the spindles straight? And if so, the TC sway bar version is the way to go? I don't think I recall seeing any failures in this thread with the sway bar version, but only the non-sway bar version.

 

Yes they do help keep the spindle straight.
Yes, only use the sway bar compatible version.

 

Good deal. I've got me a spare set of spindles, just need to buy the gussets and weld them on.

 

After reading all 15 pages, plus the post about race team abuse from TTORA.
I figured I’m good with a stock spindle. Seems to me that once you eliminate a part or system that’s designed to flex and move, you add more stress to other parts or points. If the whole system is designed to flex as a whole, I would rather keep it that way.
A good point was said that, rather replace a dent part than a broken part, I can drive to safety with a bent one.
But I am a bit curious as to what caused these parts to crack or break? What are you guys doing to cause these issues? High speed jumps, low speed crawls?

 

far more people have been stranded with bent undrivable spindles than broken gusseted spindles. I won’t get into the rest of the questions since they’ve been beat to death on here

also find me a pic of a broken spindle with total chaos’s newer style sway bar gussets.