Well not alot of replies on the trail safe seals and not alot of threads so here is the beginning my story. - Rig is on 37's, gets abused has part time kit, low tcase gear set and manual hubs on front.
I had to truss/straighten the knuckles on my 80 due to both sides being bent 3 - 5 degrees on the top of tire before we go wheeling memorial 2019 here in a week.
The Pass side was a Marlin seal (the one I am sure Trail Gear got the idea from) that Marlin no longer sells. Probably has been installed for 4 years and 20K miles and I've broke 2 birfs on that side never replaced the seal. No birf soup - I only replaced seals due to the heat of welding on the axle's to straighten them.
The Driver side was OEM yota, birf soup, probably had 290K on it, who knows as I have never opened that side up and I've never replaced it in the 8+ years of ownership.
I searched High and Low for the front seals in non OEM (yes I have read OEM only). Found some from the local parts store that are really close National part # 7331 I think. They where close as they where the same dimensions as a factory seal, but they went in the axle and could be pulled out by finger so that would not work. I ordered an OEM Part # from amazon and waited and tried to install them Monday night. Driver side went in hard and dented the outter ring of the seal and slightly deformed it. Pass side would not go in and deformed the seal (no problems with burr's or anything where the axle seal sits. I believe these were TOS3 as a part # and came from China. Defiantly not OEM toyota even though they were "advertised" as such.
Anyways, I ordered the trail gear seals from Summit Monday as I am in a time pinch to put the axle together for next weekend. Got the seals Last night and they looked almost identical to the old marlin seal I had and went in with zero issues.
Got most of the axle back together last night and I'll report back when and if they fail.
I had to truss/straighten the knuckles on my 80 due to both sides being bent 3 - 5 degrees on the top of tire before we go wheeling memorial 2019 here in a week.
The Pass side was a Marlin seal (the one I am sure Trail Gear got the idea from) that Marlin no longer sells. Probably has been installed for 4 years and 20K miles and I've broke 2 birfs on that side never replaced the seal. No birf soup - I only replaced seals due to the heat of welding on the axle's to straighten them.
The Driver side was OEM yota, birf soup, probably had 290K on it, who knows as I have never opened that side up and I've never replaced it in the 8+ years of ownership.
I searched High and Low for the front seals in non OEM (yes I have read OEM only). Found some from the local parts store that are really close National part # 7331 I think. They where close as they where the same dimensions as a factory seal, but they went in the axle and could be pulled out by finger so that would not work. I ordered an OEM Part # from amazon and waited and tried to install them Monday night. Driver side went in hard and dented the outter ring of the seal and slightly deformed it. Pass side would not go in and deformed the seal (no problems with burr's or anything where the axle seal sits. I believe these were TOS3 as a part # and came from China. Defiantly not OEM toyota even though they were "advertised" as such.
Anyways, I ordered the trail gear seals from Summit Monday as I am in a time pinch to put the axle together for next weekend. Got the seals Last night and they looked almost identical to the old marlin seal I had and went in with zero issues.
Got most of the axle back together last night and I'll report back when and if they fail.
