Thread: Axles wearing? Do these pictures mean anything to anyone?

There your end caps.Not sure how much play they should have though.Cheers Brett

Drive flange. But if you have clunking it's not likely to be these. By the way, clean and grease them. Or convert to oil filled.

Clunking is going to be something in the transfercase, diffs or drive shaft slip joints and unis. Or, more likely, it's a combination of all the play in all of these.

Your photos show why so many of us convert from greased to oiled wheel bearings. The drive splines are clearly contaminated and worn and would be contributing significantly to your 'clunking'.

You will need to replace both your axles and drive flanges and also convert your bearings to oil fed instead of greased. There are numerous posts on the forum detailing this conversion.
If attended to soon, you should be able to salvage your bearings before they will also need replacing.

Roger

Thanks guys.

Is this a job a workshop could do in one day?

Originally Posted by Aaron

Thanks guys.

Is this a job a workshop could do in one day?

Certainly.

Originally Posted by Aaron

Thanks guys.

Is this a job a workshop could do in one day?

It shouldn't be more than 1-2 hrs labour per side. VERY easy job. Just a little bit of dismantling, removal of 1 oil seal, and refit.

You could even clean and reuse your flanges and axles (for a while). They don't look too bad. But replace them if you are planning on going anywhere remote.

hey aaron

my drive flanges and axles were worn way more than yours..... i upgraded to maxi at the same time


best way is to remove the five bolts holding the drive flanges on and remove the axles, give them a good clean so you can have a better look.....the axles don't look too worn and there only appears to be a small amount of wear in the flanges, this is something you should be able to do

i have never seen that coloured grease before

it is a good idea to convert to oil lubed

its not that hard of a job to do yourself but a workshop would easily knock it over in one day......i would suggest a landy repairer (not a dealer)

what suburb do you live in? i could drop around and have a look

Originally Posted by isuzurover

It shouldn't be more than 1-2 hrs labour per side. VERY easy job. Just a little bit of dismantling, removal of 1 oil seal, and refit.

You could even clean and reuse your flanges and axles (for a while). They don't look too bad. But replace them if you are planning on going anywhere remote.

what about the hub seal/s.....or would new double lipped? be already fitted to the later fenders