by FIRIE on Wed, 24 Jul 2019 9:09 +0000
Hi all, after months of research and several seals later still no concrete answer but some news.
So my mechanic who is more than capable and I believe to be one of the good ones tried an after market seal/bearing kit made in Germany. The bearings were/are good but the seals failed. After having so many engineers/mechanics look at this problem from the surrounding area no one could believe the seal could fail/leak so bad, LOL but they did.
One thing that was found my 2008 hilux axel was only in production for 2 years and when you look at the difference between today’s axis and mine the difference is massive, nothing for the seal to grab,seal against.
As all the engineers/mechanics have done hundreds of seals they were all stunned by the seating of the seal,,,,lots of guys having their input..lol
So it’s been 1000kms and so far so good but last time the seals lasted 2 to 5oookms so time will tell
As we all know putting in words of what happened is difficult so of course there was a lot more behind the scene so before those who think it was the machinists should consider this:
When doing some of my big trips such as canning gun barrel i am over wieght(believe I am, hence gvm upgrade) so axial and diff issues where high on the list
Seating the seals omg I’ve done seals on my hilux but they were easy as they lined up
Anyway I’ve blabbed long enough, ta again for all advise