My 1984 New Horizon Toyota missed the rear axle recall and I was unaware of the problem when I purchased it in 2014. After adding 18,000 miles in 18 months, a near disaster occurred on the 101 in N. Calif. It had 78,000 miles on it at that point. I heard a clicking noise and was able to pull over and saw that one of outside rear tire rims was cracking. I limped into a local mechanic and a Les Schwab shop. They could do nothing and could not get a local machine shop to assume responsibility for trying to fix it. On the internet, they could find no used axles in Western US. So, I slowly made it back to Arizona on 3 rear wheels. After a long search, I finally found a junkyard in Phoenix that had a 6 lug rear axle. They replaced the defective axle for $1500, parts and labor. Since then, I've driven it for an additional 6,000 miles with no problems.
