See if you can convince Autozone, etc... to buy and stock these as a rental tool
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Take the proceeds and go on vacation for a year.
. Take the proceeds and go on vacation for a year.
ARCHIVE Wits' End- 80 Series Inner Seal Overdrive Tool
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All I can say is I am impressed with Wits' End. Customer service has been great and I have already received my first shipment. Thanks NLXTACY!!
Anyone in So Cal (I'm in Long Beach) have one of these I can borrow ? Happy to give Wit's End my money but out of stock at the moment and my truck is already in pieces....
I bought a HF kit a couple months ago. It has no driver to fit the front axle inner oil seal so I bought the one from Joey. In the past I’ve used a brass drift, a large socket (both deform the seal body) and an adjustable driver rented from autozone which they no longer rent. Joey’s driver made the job very easy.
I chose the 18” extended handle set. Reaching in to drive the seal while the knuckle is installed with a 6” handle doesn’t leave much handle sticking out to get hold of. Something to consider.
I’m sorry: maybe I’m dense. What’s the point of this tool? What does it do beyond pushing the inner axle seal into the axle housing ID?
Toyota already has a tool for this.
Toyota already has a tool for this.
It's meant to overdrive the seal 2mm - the first post of this thread does a better job explaining it then I could. What's the Toyota tool you mention? I haven't run across that one yet.
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Interesting mine has one that fits the inner seal, wheel races and trunion races, bought it years ago.
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You can underdrive or overdrive with whatever seal driver, socket, piece of pipe, tool etc you use. People that rebuild axles have been doing this for ages before this tool came out.
Ok, that's good to know, thanks for the advice.
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People have been doing it with transmissions as well.
6L80/6l90e transmissions require a recessed bushing tool and there is a special tool but many builders opt for something like this which comes in 1mm increments. I see no reason not to use the latter to drive an axle seal an extra few millimeters...and it is in stock.
6L80/6l90e transmissions require a recessed bushing tool and there is a special tool but many builders opt for something like this which comes in 1mm increments. I see no reason not to use the latter to drive an axle seal an extra few millimeters...and it is in stock.
Been using socket of the right size for decades with out issue 
