CV/front axle "trail" spare components

[grinchy]

This is the trouble of the Dealer packaging meant for the Toyota internal white glove style dealer transport when put thru UPS sorting machines and conveyors. Just like with the radiator, these are packaged for transportation, but not for shipment.

Sucks to have to work thru returns and not be able to put on the new CVs for sure though.

 

[Oogabooga]

Just got mine from Serra Toyota. Looks similar. Bought 2 axles, both messed up. #%&$

@Oogabooga, how did you fix yours? I’m going to call Serra tomorrow and get new seals. I doubt they will want me to ship them back.

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Myself and @Vasiliy ended up just bending them back as best as possible before installation. It seemed like such a common issue that I didn’t want to bother with returning and more than likely just having the same issue again. As far as as I can tell it’s not super important that the seal is 100% perfect.

I put it in a vise and just slowly worked my way around it with small pliers and a punch to form it back to as close to round as I could.

 

[kcjaz]

Myself and @Vasiliy ended up just bending them back as best as possible before installation. It seemed like such a common issue that I didn’t want to bother with returning and more than likely just having the same issue again. As far as as I can tell it’s not super important that the seal is 100% perfect.

I put it in a vise and just slowly worked my way around it with small pliers and a punch to form it back to as close to round as I could.

So you uninstalled it, flattened it and put it back? I think you can get the dust covers/seals as separate parts, so I’d be tempted to get new, unmangled parts and replace. I am still waiting on Serra but the plan is to send my axles back and try again. I agree it’s likely to happen again.

 

[Oogabooga]

So you uninstalled it, flattened it and put it back? I think you can get the dust covers/seals as separate parts, so I’d be tempted to get new, unmangled parts and replace. I am still waiting on Serra but the plan is to send my axles back and try again. I agree it’s likely to happen again.

No I flattened and “fixed” the seal on the new part that was delivered. The existing CV on the truck was leaking grease so I replaced that one with the new one.

Yeah that’s a good point with getting the new seals, I would have liked to do that also but wasn’t really sure on the procedure of removing the damaged ones and installing the new seals. But also my existing CV was in kind of rough shape and I wanted to just get it fixed asap.

Plan is to reboot the old CV and keep that as a spare, or perhaps once I fix it, reinstall it and the properly fix this new ones seal.