3020 steering arm registration

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When I hit a ditch recently, the right front wheel went out of alignment by several inches. I figured that the splines in the arm on the top of the knuckle shaft were stripped, but when I took it apart, they weren't. The knuckle shaft turns with the wheel, but it seems to be out of registration with the wheel. See picture.

I lowered the knuckle shaft out of the knee a few inches. Didn't see anything that looked twisted or bent.

What should I try next?
 
Take the wheel off and drop spindle out for a better look. Slim chance the upright spun in the spindle part. I made one spindle out of two years ago, by pressing the broken upright out of the spindle part, after grinding the weld it made a 50 ton press jump off of the floor and a couple guys clean there shorts that were working under a car close by.
 
I have seen them spin in the spindle area, but most of the time they just twist in the shaft, some after market replacements are soft to start with,, not good enough to use on a loader tractor..
 
Don't take this but for the safety concern, but that concrete block is dangerous, they are fragile, and it is sitting on a very fragile way, resting on it like that. Take a concrete block sitting like that, and hit it right there with a 3 lb. hammer reall good. You might get a surprise.
 
Don't take this but for the safety concern, but that concrete block is dangerous, they are fragile, and it is sitting on a very fragile way, resting on it like that. Take a concrete block sitting like that, and hit it with a 3 lb. hammer reall good. You might get a surprise.
 
Yes, I have seen them explode,,turn them over to where the cores are upright is a stronger position but I still don't ever use them,,nothing like a good hard wood block and a "crib" method,,it will help to keep you from meeting the local paramedics..
 
What holds the upright shaft in the lower spindle housing?

In case it matters, the wheel was rotated clear out perpendicular, still connected to the tie rod, before forcing it back around to this point.
 
(quoted from post at 06:50:36 09/19/16) Yes, I have seen them explode,,turn them over to where the cores are upright is a stronger position but I still don't ever use them,,nothing like a good hard wood block and a "crib" method,,it will help to keep you from meeting the local paramedics..

A very good and experienced auto mechanic I knew got killed a year or so back changing a transmission in a car. He had some nice sturdy looking wood blocks on the floor and jack-stands setting neatly on the blocks. Jack-stand split the wood blocks on one corner and he was done!

So very true that not one of you guys are any good dead....

As far as I know the spindle is a machined shaft pressed into the cast bearing spindle and welded. I've seen them bust-off before but never seen the shaft slip in the cast spindle piece
 
I have seen a few of the twist in the spindle, the weld would tear loose, but this was on loader tractors and they had a lot of strain on them..most of them just twist in the shaft area..
 
Okay, makes sense.

The frame bears marks that indicates this tractor had a loader mounted on it at some point in the past.

I'll pull the spindle out of the knee and see what it looks like.
 

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