Does rhe seal come out of this housing ? Or some how pushed out the other end where the wheel goes?

 

if you mean the passenger side and have the 2 piece axle. you can get to it by pulling the the shift fork out. also have to pull outer axle. I use a slide hamer to install. not a lot of room in there to work.

 

It comes out right there... can be a bit of a pain to get it out. You may need to "engineer" something to push all the way from the drivers side axle tube.

 

Ah ok. This on the right front its a dana 30hp axle ive removed everything on the passenger side. Axle shaft and all

 

Yeah. Its a pic of the vac motor port... I know it well. I did both my axle seals at the same time, and made a crazy contraption to punch the Passenger seal out from all the way across from the drivers side....er... wait... no I think I am confusing my self. Isn't the seal on the outboard side? Maybe my contraption was for setting the new seal in, I think I just hammered the old one out from the passenger side wheel. Sorry for the confusion... it's been a while. IIRC, I just used a socket that barely fit in the tube and a long extension to hammer out the old seal. Getting the new one back in was a bit more... exciting...

 

Lol yea that confused me. I gotta seal puller tool to help get it out hopefully will get it

 

Ok so how in the world do u get the new seal in. ? Im replacing the seal on the right front. I really dont wanna tear down my driverside . That sounds lil rediculous to put a seal in. I almost had it tapped in but wen I inserted the axle shaft I popped it back out. I cant tap it anymore with flat head and hammer cuz it gonna start messing it up . ?? Need help :/

 

.... yeah.... You need to engineer something if you don't want to remove the drivers side. I have read where people have used a combination of a long rod of all-thread, some nuts & washers to make a gizzy that will PULL the seal into place from the Passenger side using a drill or wrench.... you can try that maybe.

 

Guess its off to lowes tomorro lol I gotta get this done. I cant see myself payin couple $100bucks or more to have a $7 part installed

 

Well I found a write up on a tool to make I made it cantvget it work right to seat the seal. I have an "omix seal" there r aton of diff inner axle seals im wondering if the previous owner just stuck a seal in. ? I ruined my new one tryin to install it.

 

take it to auto parts and cross reference the number

 

Thats wat I did. I got my forst seal from local jeep store gotta new one ordered threw advance

 

Well my jeep is either goin in a shop or I gotta remove the driver axle part of it is making it impossible to seat the seal this is my third seal. :/

 

Custom made a tool to press the seal in with out tearing down the whole axle

 

Nice.... pics (of the tool you made)?