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I'll have another look and possibly send a photo of the threads when I change the bearings in a few days time. At present I'm in the middle of fuel line replacements.

Maybe mine isn't so bad after all! I'm surprised VW didn't engineer this a little more robustly considering how much depends on it. If you lose the remaining few threads then your van is off the road.It's also good to know that a wanted advert might bear fruit. However, second hand items may also ha...

Thanks very much for that reassurance. I would still like to know where to start looking for a replacement if I ever needed one in the future. If there are no reproduction items I suppose we are reduced to second-hand ones. So far I haven't been able to find any.

I should have taken a photo. Without taking it apart again to look I would say that about 5mm or about half a dozen threads are still ok. Roughly the portion from the thrust washer to where the peening slots start. However I'm also not sure what a new one would look like , were they threaded right t...

Hi everyone, First post. Does anyone know where a new steering knuckle/stub axle (N/S) might be sourced for my recently acquired 1988 1.9 DG? The threads for the hub nut appear to have had a hard life, probably from someone applying brute force without first tapping up the peening on the nut. I thin...