Friends.
I've come to learn a lot in the past 48h. I'm having a mother of a time removing the driver's side birfield while redoing the front end. I'm going to rent a slap hammer tomorrow hopefully. For anyone who is wondering, the bolt in the end of the birf is 8x1.25.
I have come to realize that at some point in this truck's life the front axle housing was bent (see picture), which has made removal of the axle difficult (impossible so far). I dont really have the resources to replace the housing itself. Here's my question - would it be reasonable to replace the inner oil seal with ones from marlin crawler? I've read that they are perhaps more forgiving. My thought is that they might be less likely to fail given that the axle is probably not sitting perfectly in the housing. I have a front knuckle kit from @cruiseroutfit and I could just swap out the inner seals that they provided..
Once again any help much appreciated.
Thanks - Ari
I've come to learn a lot in the past 48h. I'm having a mother of a time removing the driver's side birfield while redoing the front end. I'm going to rent a slap hammer tomorrow hopefully. For anyone who is wondering, the bolt in the end of the birf is 8x1.25.
I have come to realize that at some point in this truck's life the front axle housing was bent (see picture), which has made removal of the axle difficult (impossible so far). I dont really have the resources to replace the housing itself. Here's my question - would it be reasonable to replace the inner oil seal with ones from marlin crawler? I've read that they are perhaps more forgiving. My thought is that they might be less likely to fail given that the axle is probably not sitting perfectly in the housing. I have a front knuckle kit from @cruiseroutfit and I could just swap out the inner seals that they provided..
Once again any help much appreciated.
Thanks - Ari