My Front wheel bearings are shot, plus there's some grease coming from the cv axle part. long story short I'm gonna rebuild the front axle/knuckle. my question is are there any vendors that sell the whole thing everything I need as a kit? what kinda grease do y'all recommend? any help will be appreciated. or anything that can point me the right direction. thanks in advance
FRONT KNUCKLE/AXLE REBUILD (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Grod302
- Start date
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.
Cruiser Outfitters has great kits.
LINUS
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
The CV part is called your birfield, or birf - and grease has been discussed to the minutia it can be.
The vendors are easy to find too for a rebuild kit, birfs can be flopped side for side if yours are worn to the point of clicking sound at full lock turn.
That search bar will give you more threads than you probably will or can wade through.
The vendors are easy to find too for a rebuild kit, birfs can be flopped side for side if yours are worn to the point of clicking sound at full lock turn.
That search bar will give you more threads than you probably will or can wade through.
NLXTACY
Wits' End
Nice, I am rebuilding mine for the second time to replace the front diff gasket. If this is your first time rebuilding, I would recommend:
- all new gaskets
- OEM bearings and seals
- wheel bearing grease
- moly grease for the birfs
- HD trail gear wiper kit (comes with rock rings). These replace your felt wipers and you wont have greasy balls.
Rebuild kits are all over the place.
- all new gaskets
- OEM bearings and seals
- wheel bearing grease
- moly grease for the birfs
- HD trail gear wiper kit (comes with rock rings). These replace your felt wipers and you wont have greasy balls.
Rebuild kits are all over the place.
Here are some resellers who can provide you with great Australian knuckle kits, wheel bearings and Birfs/CVs from Terrain Tamer www.terraintamer.com
Terrain Tamer / Harrop Resellers
2x for Cruiseroutfitters, kurt and the guys can tell you everything you need to know and also supply the tools you might not have. make sure your knuckle studs are in good shape torque wise. i would recommend changing them to the E12 studs, they are much easier to torque when you need to.
I was hoping to tackle this tomorrow morning on mine, alas Cruiser Outfitters was back ordered on their rebuild kits when I called several days ago. They said they would be getting more in this week, hopefully it ships out in time for next weekend.
They will! We have everything but the bearings and a pallet of them arrive Monday or Tuesday. Thanks for your order!
The kits ship with full step-by-step instructions, torque specs and diagrams BUT if want to make sure you are covered on the tools and grease, check out this link:
Cruiser Outfitters
That's great news! And after reading my post again, I hope I didn't come across as disgruntled for that was not my intentions. Looking forward to the parts coming in.
Side note, I need to add a few bits and pieces to my order. I'll call you guys on Monday to talk.
Hey,
Go OEM...better and cheaper !!!!!.....please see here for a complete list of PN:
Knuckle Rebuild Kit Recommendations?
add the wheel bearings:
9036849084 inner, (Koyo JLM104948-N/JLM104910-N)
9036845087 outer, (Koyo LM102949/LM102910)
see here: 9036849084, 9036845087 - Search Results - Search for Genuine Parts - Amayama Trading Co.
personal I went for Koyo
regards
Go OEM...better and cheaper !!!!!.....please see here for a complete list of PN:
Knuckle Rebuild Kit Recommendations?
add the wheel bearings:
9036849084 inner, (Koyo JLM104948-N/JLM104910-N)
9036845087 outer, (Koyo LM102949/LM102910)
see here: 9036849084, 9036845087 - Search Results - Search for Genuine Parts - Amayama Trading Co.
personal I went for Koyo
regards
Last edited:
Not at all
No problemo, let whomever you speak with (likely Bryce) know you have an existing order and we can add away!
I've seen you post this in a few various places and I'd like to point out a couple of my thoughts.
A. OEM is NOT better than what we offer, it is often the same thing. Our kits come from OEM manufactures i.e. same part, different color box. Koyo, NOK and high quality Japanese such as Joint Fuji. We've examined every part against OE in depth, the same. Read more about that here: Product Spotlight: Cruiser Outfitters Knuckle Rebuild Kits
B. OEM is NOT cheaper. I just added up the parts from your list to match our FA9097KWB ($205, ~$220 shipped anywhere in the US) and Amayama is ~$360 shipped. Perhaps you are buying in super huge volume from them but to get a 40% discount? Fwiw Amayama no longer has the Koyo 30304AJ bearing unless you buy OE, they have NSK & Nachi, both are good bearing suppliers and used OE by Toyota for different applications but not knuckle bearings. Unknown if they have the correct taper as some interchange bearings do not.
What am I missing?
Hey cruiseroutfit,
I don't want to get into a polemic....It is very good for people to have choices ...and for me OEM thru amayama (and some others ) proved to be the best one over the years.
I really don't know where you came up with 360 at amayama ?????
I just locked at my previous orders and found the knuckles kit...130.56 USD.
I went and typed in the pn on amayama and it all came at 103.64 USD without the bearings. Indeed at the moment amayama doesn't offer the Koyo 30304AJ but I paid 5.5 USD each (22 USD all 4). So the knuckle seal kit including the Koyo bearings are 103.67+22 = 125.67 if one orders today...... 125.67 USD
Please see for yourself here:
12157-10010, 90310-35010, 43204-60032, 43435-60020, 43436-60011, 90313-93003, 90311-62001, 90214-42030, 90215-42025, 90521-34005, 90520-31007, 43422-60060, 90366-20003 - Search Results - Search for Genuine Parts - Amayama Trading Co.
now....
if the someone orders the wheel bearings ( 9036849084, 9036845087 - Search Results - Search for Genuine Parts - Amayama Trading Co.)
would have to pay 2 x (30.04 + 24.69) = 109.46 USD this is for the 9036849084 and 9036845087)
So.... the total for the complete knuckle kit INCLUDING wheel bearings TOYOTA OEM would be :
125.67 + 109.46 = 235.13 USD !!!!????
Myself I went for Koyo for the wheel bearings as mentioned. for the following prices:
Koyo JLM104948-N/JLM104910-N) 11.64 2 23.34;
Koyo LM102949/LM102910) 8.60 2 17.2;
for a total of : 40.48 USD !!!??? for all 4 wheel bearings .....Koyo....
Anyway....as I said it is very good for peoples to be informed and to have choices.....
regards,
I don't want to get into a polemic....It is very good for people to have choices ...and for me OEM thru amayama (and some others ) proved to be the best one over the years.
I really don't know where you came up with 360 at amayama ?????
I just locked at my previous orders and found the knuckles kit...130.56 USD.
I went and typed in the pn on amayama and it all came at 103.64 USD without the bearings. Indeed at the moment amayama doesn't offer the Koyo 30304AJ but I paid 5.5 USD each (22 USD all 4). So the knuckle seal kit including the Koyo bearings are 103.67+22 = 125.67 if one orders today...... 125.67 USD
Please see for yourself here:
12157-10010, 90310-35010, 43204-60032, 43435-60020, 43436-60011, 90313-93003, 90311-62001, 90214-42030, 90215-42025, 90521-34005, 90520-31007, 43422-60060, 90366-20003 - Search Results - Search for Genuine Parts - Amayama Trading Co.
now....
if the someone orders the wheel bearings ( 9036849084, 9036845087 - Search Results - Search for Genuine Parts - Amayama Trading Co.)
would have to pay 2 x (30.04 + 24.69) = 109.46 USD this is for the 9036849084 and 9036845087)
So.... the total for the complete knuckle kit INCLUDING wheel bearings TOYOTA OEM would be :
125.67 + 109.46 = 235.13 USD !!!!????
Myself I went for Koyo for the wheel bearings as mentioned. for the following prices:
Koyo JLM104948-N/JLM104910-N) 11.64 2 23.34;
Koyo LM102949/LM102910) 8.60 2 17.2;
for a total of : 40.48 USD !!!??? for all 4 wheel bearings .....Koyo....
Anyway....as I said it is very good for peoples to be informed and to have choices.....
regards,
Thanks for the reply and I agree its absolutely great to have choices and be up front about what kits cost, etc. It seems that Amayama has been upping their prices and no longer carrying some items? Not only do the no longer list the correct Koyo 30304AJ (and haven't for a bit as I tried to price it that way when you posted in the other thread a few months back), they don't offer the wheel bearings outside of OEM Toyota boxes either?
So in order to replicate our kit (you ordered a few other items), this is what I'm coming up with:
It's important to note that some DHL shipments from Amayama particularly out of UAE also get hit with duties/brokerage on top of the 14-21 day prep/transit period. That said if you've got some other parts coming from them it may be a non-issue and we use them for misc. stuff too, great guys to work with.
So in order to replicate our kit (you ordered a few other items), this is what I'm coming up with:
It's important to note that some DHL shipments from Amayama particularly out of UAE also get hit with duties/brokerage on top of the 14-21 day prep/transit period. That said if you've got some other parts coming from them it may be a non-issue and we use them for misc. stuff too, great guys to work with.
nukegoat
Should have bought a Jeep
For what its worth i think the felt wiper seal is better than the rubber or uhmw designs. I went back to the oem felt
Hi again,
As I said I'm definitely not looking to start a polemic.....In fact we are in total agreement: more choices and more info better for guys looking for services and parts....having as much info and choices as possible enables people making the best decision for their situation....
Now we are in total agreement with your list above : if you subtract the bearings you end up paying 129.06 USD
Indeed amayama prices varies...so it seems you took the most expensive variant...for example for the 90313-93003 I paid 14.27; in your order above you chose the most expensive at 27.14 instead of selecting the 15.88 from Japan, for the 90311-62001 you could have chosen 7.53 from Japan instead of 12.21 .....and so on.....Also, for the bearings (all Koyo) I paid 5.5 for the 30304AJ, 11.64 for the JLM104948-N/JLM104910-N and 8.60 for the LM102949/LM102910 all from amayama at the time....(indeed they don't offer alternates Koyos for some reason at the moment )....
Anyway...speaking for myself...I just did the summing from my orders: I paid a total of 171.04 USD for the OEM knuckle kit seals including all the bearings: trunnion, wheel inner and outer; end of story. (I didn't add the shipping, I've ordered the parts over multiple orders with some other parts...)
Again....don't get me wrong I'm just offering info for peoples looking for info....the more choices and info ...the better....
You mentioned you work with Amayama guys....so I would definitely buy from you guys next time provided that your prices are identical or so with Amayama prices....for the same OEM parts.....can you guaranty that? do we have a deal?
regards
As I said I'm definitely not looking to start a polemic.....In fact we are in total agreement: more choices and more info better for guys looking for services and parts....having as much info and choices as possible enables people making the best decision for their situation....
Now we are in total agreement with your list above : if you subtract the bearings you end up paying 129.06 USD
Indeed amayama prices varies...so it seems you took the most expensive variant...for example for the 90313-93003 I paid 14.27; in your order above you chose the most expensive at 27.14 instead of selecting the 15.88 from Japan, for the 90311-62001 you could have chosen 7.53 from Japan instead of 12.21 .....and so on.....Also, for the bearings (all Koyo) I paid 5.5 for the 30304AJ, 11.64 for the JLM104948-N/JLM104910-N and 8.60 for the LM102949/LM102910 all from amayama at the time....(indeed they don't offer alternates Koyos for some reason at the moment )....
Anyway...speaking for myself...I just did the summing from my orders: I paid a total of 171.04 USD for the OEM knuckle kit seals including all the bearings: trunnion, wheel inner and outer; end of story. (I didn't add the shipping, I've ordered the parts over multiple orders with some other parts...)
Again....don't get me wrong I'm just offering info for peoples looking for info....the more choices and info ...the better....
You mentioned you work with Amayama guys....so I would definitely buy from you guys next time provided that your prices are identical or so with Amayama prices....for the same OEM parts.....can you guaranty that? do we have a deal?
regards
Last edited:
Works for me!
Fwiw I only chose the parts available from UAE as that is where you stated you sourced them.
Fwiw I only chose the parts available from UAE as that is where you stated you sourced them.
Why is that?
