Half Light duty brakes half heavy duty

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Really really REALLY frustrated right now by the previous owner of my truck

I was doing the bearings because one side was toast, pulled the rotor got the bearing part numbers, measured the rotor and ordered the light duty parts. Parts came in, got one side done

Today I go to finish the job, rotor won't slide in it's getting hung up on the bearing. Take the dial calipers out and the spindle shaft is bigger than the bearing ID...

So then I measure the rotor and YEP, it's the bigger one.

Anybody ever see this type of shenanigans???
 

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Possibly wrecked an they did a whole suspension replacement on one side from a Donor without checking brake size?

Unfortunately I've seen lots of hack job stuff where people just slap something together
 
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I've seen people take just 1 spindle/rotor assembly from a truck, so it's definitely possible to put dissimilar spindles on
 

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