Alrighty, I think I've killed my axle...

I took the sway bars off, and I think it put a little bit more stress on the axle...

Went mudding a few times, then miraculously high centered my bone stock jeep (hehe, pretty hard to do in my oppinion). In the process of getting un-high centered (low-centered?) I free wheeled the front axle a lot, and then of course, went from having no traction at all, to lots of traction, not the kindest thing to do to a ten year old drive line...

Then I noticed when turning and stuff I hear this god-awful grinding noise coming from the front drivers side wheel, I get her home, check it out, and this is what I find... (see attachements....)

Looks like I blew the seal on the axle. The other side is nice and tight, it ain't going no where for now...

My question is, where the heck do I find a replacementor repair kit? seems that I can't pin down a repair kit or anything from the local CSK's around here.

Any help/advice would be appreciated, as I'm going to tear into this soon, and would find any sort of guidance nice...

Thanks guys!
Nason.

P.S. sorry for the shoddy photo quality, these were taken on my cell phone, lol.

 

thats not the seal it a dust cover basically. quadratec has them, http://www.quadratec.com/products/52449_0019.htm

 

Hmm, okay.

I wonder whats causing the grinding then. Guess I'll tear into it this week some time...

 

Check your Ujoints and brakes. But you might have just packed the axel tube full of mudd.

 

U-joints are nice and tight, and I did a partial rebuild on both the front calibers. Was acting like the rotors were warped, but I rebuilt the calipers, found the slide pins were bone dry and had dried rubber on them, cleaned it all and put it back together, and no more vibes when I brake.

So yeah, I think it might be mud and crap in the tube.

I'm thinking I'm just going to pop the diff cover off, pull both the half shafts out, hose it out good and then use about two dozen cans of brakleen on the sucker and call it good.

I also gotta repack the bearings....

 

you wont be repacking any bearings they are a sealed unit
but they may need replacing

 

I might as well when I have everything that far apart anyways...