FJ80 n00b tackling front axle rebuild

[Sarmajor]

You do not have to remove any steering joints from the knuckle arms. They will just drop out of the way once they are removed from the bottoms of the knuckles.

 

[lazy]

Drifts and a seal puller are nice and about 4 cans or more of brake clean. If you are reusing wheel bearings than you will need a lot of cleaner to also clean all 4 of them. New ones done need as much cleaning. Regardless if you reuse or replace you will need the seal behind the inner wheel bearing.

you need a big brass drift or brass hammer to remove cone washers. In the past i have always bought brass drift sets. They are always kind of small and end up bending. This time i spent $25 and bought a 3/4 brass drift. It is really nice, just a massive chunk of brass.

I've never used a brass hammer or a brass drift. Just a 2lb hammer and a little who's your daddy on the flange plates' edge.

I also dont use a seal puller as I do the screw driver and hammer method in Jonesey video for the inner oil seal. The seal on the hub gets hammered out with the bearing and race.

New bearings are a good idea, especially since timken bearings can be had for $45ish for both fronts. New rotors are also a good idea, but if just changing those it's a 30-45 min job opposed to a 4-5 hour job.

Now that I learned the Martack method, cleaning the outside of these parts takes the most time, cleaning the grease on the inside takes the second most time.