Supercharged111
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New steering knuckle required. Good time to verify the ball joints and outer tie rod ends.
Rotor looks salvageable, (hard to know until properly measured) although the ABS tone ring appears damaged, and you'll need a grease seal and bearing inspection/repack.
No disc brake rotor splash-shield? Kinda surprised.
How does this damage happen? Someone at Nissan decided to add preload to the bearings as if they were a sealed assembly?
Shield is unbolted and stuffed inboard to facilitate removal of knuckle/spindle.
Someone at Nissan got to where I am and instead of fixing the threads or replacing knuckle so one can actually feel the nut to set preload, guessed and got it wrong. Outer bearing was gone and the wheel was ready to just fall off.