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Originally Posted by ddicosmo
I can't believe that Toyota couldn't come up with a better design after all these years for these dust shields. How dumb is it that you have to take the hub off to replace a sheet metal part that will fail well before the hubs do?
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Its not the design, its the steel that Toyota used which is the issue. Many other makes use the same design, I have several BMWs from the 80s and 90s that have been driven in winter conditions, including several winters in MI, which have the original shields. They are not pristine, but they are not what I would call rotten with corrosion which plagues the 4th gen 4Runners.
You could weld on plates but honestly pulling the hub is preferable IMHO as the hub assembly is not that difficult/time consuming to remove.