Don't even think about bending it without heat! Its bad enough doing it with the gas axe. Glad none of you are going to meet me coming the other way at highway speeds! 50 year old iron is barely reliable without messing with it, bending it introduces all kinds of unpredictable variables. Buy the new spindles! Just because we usta do it don't mean its right! I can remember going out at three AM to retrieve a '49 Ford that broke a flipped spindle and hit a culvert at 60, messed it up bad!