Probably not much help to you now, but...

FWIW, the ones I've bought were EMPI from NAPA and I didn't have any problems. These were while working on other people's trucks though since I've still got the originals in mine (manual hubs make them live a long time).


'97 4Runner, '06 F350, '86 4Runner, '05 WR450
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