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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: Matrixxxx on December 23, 2013, 01:12:38 PM

Title: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Matrixxxx on December 23, 2013, 01:12:38 PM: One of mine is leaking, i know the parts are cheap but it is quite a big job labour wise.

any one know the rough cost at the dealer?

anyone know any specialists in the York area?

wheres the best place to buy the 75w-140 diff oil?

Thanks in Advance

Alex.
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Cockney Boy on December 23, 2013, 01:18:03 PM: 2 hours labour
G-Force 4x4 or Jeepymart
Google is your friend or main dealer
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Hillbilly on December 23, 2013, 01:30:25 PM: Just had both seals replaced here.

http://www.peakjeep.co.uk/.
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: willo on December 23, 2013, 02:36:32 PM: Inner or outer?
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Dutch on December 23, 2013, 02:58:07 PM: Quote from: Willo on December 23, 2013, 02:36:32 PM
Inner or outer?

WJ hasn't got outer front axle seals IMHO.
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: willo on December 23, 2013, 03:02:42 PM: Quote from: Cockney Boy on December 23, 2013, 01:18:03 PM
2 hours labour
G-Force 4x4 or Jeepymart
Google is your friend or main dealer

If its inner axle seals you'll struggle to do both sides in 2 hours, even in the dry in the warm, on a hoist, imho
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Hillbilly on December 23, 2013, 04:17:39 PM: Quote from: Willo on December 23, 2013, 02:36:32 PM
Inner or outer?

Inner. Both driveshafts and diff out to do the job. Would have thought a bit more than two hours.
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Dutch on December 23, 2013, 04:22:20 PM: Quote from: Hillbilly on December 23, 2013, 04:17:39 PM
Quote from: Willo on December 23, 2013, 02:36:32 PM
Inner or outer?

Inner. Both driveshafts and diff out to do the job. Would have thought a bit more than two hours.

To get the hubs off is already 1/2 a days work. I had to when I had to replace a CV joint grinding itself to smithereens. Outside end is just a hollow tube and you can pull the halfshaft straight out.
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Bubba on December 23, 2013, 05:41:53 PM: 2 hours ? Nah I would want llonger and deff change both rather than just the leaker
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Mike Pavelin on December 23, 2013, 07:12:08 PM: Half a day if you know what you're doing.
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Matrixxxx on December 30, 2013, 11:38:44 AM: The local jeep dealer quoted me £170.00 for the labour , they said a couple of hours. sounds quite reasonable?

it took me 3 hours to nearly get the inspection plate off the rear diff with three previously rounded off bolts at the top ..... :banghead:
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Bubba on December 30, 2013, 10:00:31 PM: Not a good day in the workshop :hysterical: never mind keep going you will get there
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Matrixxxx on December 31, 2013, 09:45:31 AM: just asked the dealer for a formal quote and it gone up to £479.00 :97:
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Hillbilly on December 31, 2013, 10:48:47 AM: Quote from: Matrixxxx on December 31, 2013, 09:45:31 AM
just asked the dealer for a formal quote and it gone up to £479.00 :97:

Nearly three times what I paid. :119:
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: gordy on January 01, 2014, 08:43:15 AM: If you are in or around Essex, There's FTE. http://www.fte.co.uk. Rebuilt and re reared both my TJ axles and a first class service And workmanship I received.
Title: Re: Front diff Axel seals
Post by: Bubba on January 01, 2014, 09:39:55 PM: Quote from: Matrixxxx on December 31, 2013, 09:45:31 AM
just asked the dealer for a formal quote and it gone up to £479.00 :97:

holy fook they are bending folk over