Recent content by CaptBeardilocks

A permanent solution is on the "if I live that long" list.

I will say that for the expensive shipping, it showed up on the east coast from CA 48hrs after I ordered it. So I took a few photos. What I have on hand is an OEM seal, the TT HD seal, and the Trail Gear seal (L to R). The only Marlin I have ATM is on the truck. TT HD on the right...

With the current tariff situation they're ~$42ea plus shipping. Shipping cost me $15. I'm fairly certain the housing is bent. But I don't have the time or money to deal with that ATM. I live in the truck & travel 9mo out of the year. And the other 3mo I'm doing maintenance and visiting...

I ordered one yesterday. Very spendy. Great if it stops my leak. But as this is my 4th or 5th seal replacement on that side, my confidence is not super high. Fingers crossed though. I shoulda bought a Costco pallet of Moly at the beginning....

Last alignment was 5yrs/65k miles ago when I first built her. Nothing has changed in the interim. But Camber was Left: 0.1° inboard and Right: 0.2° inboard. Looks like maybe 0.3° inboard is max? Don’t know if that’s maybe an issue. But the opposite side shock tower is slightly tweaked...

I've been looking for a few years now. They're really hard to find and expensive in the US. Even worse so in the East where my shop is.

New RCV axles, new spindle w/bushes, new vent port at the axle/line run high etc etc etc. Only one side leaks, I think the other is still on the first OEM seal I put in 65k miles ago. Lol. Pretty sure it's the housing at this point. I have no idea what straightening would entail at this point.

Guess next up is to give the TT seal a try. FWIW the Marlin Eco-Seal lasted the longest so far. Light leaking after about 14k miles of abuse. Better than I expected.

Threads have now cross-bred. Lol. I was looking for the Front Inner Axle Seal. I have defeated all current offerings I've tried. I now have the part number for the TT version and that will be my next go. Thanks!

Sorry I was unclear and obviously slightly off topic for this thread. Lol. I was talking about Front Inner Axle Seal. I have one chronically leaky side.

Does anyone make anything like this for the inner axle seal? I have a chronic leak on one side (possible almost imperceptibly tweaked housing) and I feel like this cassette style would do wonders there. Or for anyone with a groove on the shaft there. Thanks!

Can you send me any details on what you coated with, thickness, cost, etc? My last set of ACL bearings were super quiet for about 10k miles, but I'm starting to hear the cavitation again. Likely not hurting anything, but it's nails on a chalkboard to me. Lol.

I'm in NY. No old Toyota survived the salt long enough to retire to a wrecking yard around here. o_O

Here it is. It's about 9mm square at the base of the shaft and just over 12mm square at the flat (part it's sitting on).

The backs on those are different (per what I cam see on Partsouq). Which is fine if the square dimension is the same. Which of course there's no way to tell unless I'm holding one. Lol. After this storm passes I'll post a pic of the removed holder.