how to remove front left axle shaft seal? (picture included)

[jackerz]

ok, have everything apart...

but am stuggling to pull the front left axle shaft seal out.

i just cant get the bugger out!

please help!

cheers


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/08/1314.jpg

[MinniTheMoocha]

You need a strong seal pick.

Otherwise you can try hitting it with a flat head screw driver to make it collapse in on itself.

The other option but looks like it would be a little hard because it is set in deep is to drill a small pilot hole into the seal, screw in a self tapper and then pull it out by levering on the screw.

[jackerz]

cheers...

i went to pull it out, but i pulled a steel sleeve thing out, and a bit of rubber, but it ripped...

and it looks like i damages a steel ring inside the axle... not sure if its part of the seal or the axle though.....


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[MinniTheMoocha]

cheers...

i went to pull it out, but i pulled a steel sleeve thing out, and a bit of rubber, but it ripped...

and it looks like i damages a steel ring inside the axle... not sure if its part of the seal or the axle though.....


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Doesn't sound great but I suspect the steel ring is a part of the seal. I need to pull up the RAVE cd to check about the "sleeve thing" though as I am not sure.

I am soon to replace this seal as oil has migrated from the diff housing to the CV's. Also will replace the swivel seal as I have a little weep from one of them.

Will try check it a little later but hopefully someone else will chime in.

[Blknight.aus]

stop being lazy and unbolt the swivel housing like your supposed to.

then you just lever it out with a screwdriver.

[jackerz]

im not being lazy.... :)

i actually dont know what you mean...

[Blknight.aus]

look up over the top of the ball joint about inline with where that seal sits you'll find a flange secured with 7 12 point bolt. Remove those bolts, remove the chrome swivel ball and then have at the seal.

[BigJon]

Dunno about that, looks D2 to me...

[jackerz]

look up over the top of the ball joint about inline with where that seal sits you'll find a flange secured with 7 12 point bolt. Remove those bolts, remove the chrome swivel ball and then have at the seal.


cheers:)

[Blknight.aus]

nyargh spuds.. it is too....

the D2's I get with a set of hooked leg calipers (they look like a compass but with points on both legs and they are bent inwards) swing the legs so the points hook outwards insert them into the seal and then work at it, takes a couple of minutes but it usually works.

[jackerz]

cheers, will give that a go tommorow.

i have pulled out part of it, with a steel ring, but it seems there is more left in there.

i will go and buy the seal in the morning so i know what im pulling out...

will report back with the outcome :)

cheers

[jackerz]

ok, so i got the whole seal out.

went to get a new one, got home, only to find there is a hairline crack in the new seal! dammit!

what a waste of a 3 hour drive.

so got on the phone to them and they are going to hunt for another one for me.

then the mission of fitting it!

[Blknight.aus]

take your old one down to a metal suppliers and get a piece of thick wall pipe in the same outer diameter as the seal (or up to about 1.5mm / 1/16th inch narrower.

then use that to gently press the seal in. once you have the seal in placegrab a straight edge hold it flat on the hub so that when you slide it down onto the tube it touching, mark the tube (make sure the steering is dead ahead and the tube is dead central.

then at a later stage have a metalsmith place a large flat disk on the pipe so that it sits closer to the end by the width of the ruler and is dead square, machine it down so that it just fits inside the hub studs and theres your new seal installer for next time.

[jackerz]

how tight is this seal?

its very hard to press in...

can i grease it up?

[Blknight.aus]

you should always grease the running face of seals prior to installation

it should be somewhere between a bit of a hard push by hand and "I need a 20t press, your joking... right?"

a very small hammer and a suitable drift will get it in with some patients just make sure it goes in square and to the correct depth.

[jackerz]

yeah it feels mighty hard... will grease it up tommorow and give it a whirl...

[jackerz]

well i got there in the end.... :)

dropped/re-filled front and rear axles with new oil :)

and then topped up the t/c

VERY dirty morning, but a productive one.

fingers crossed everything is ok......for now