My front axle seals on both ends and needs sometype of overhual.
How hard is it to corect this problem? can i just replace seals or rebuild the axle ? Is the a kit? any info will help
its a 1979 toyota 4x4 pu

 

Are you talking about the seals or the CV boots?

 

I think you wandered into the wrong section... no CV axles on a 79 truck


Here are the scans of the factory service manual for the front axle

http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=32014.0

 

woops, never read the section. I just responded to the "new posts" section, and there was no signature. but now he added the year...

 

If I were you I would go ahead and rebuild the front knuckles. Marlin Crawler has a front end service kit w/ or w/o the wheel bearings

 

is there any thing i need to know?
is this a straigh forword job?
and is the anyupgrade i should do at this time?

 

this might help (my best effort) .. lots of pics ..


http://toyotatrekker.proboards107.co...play&thread=63




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If you are going to replace the axle seals, you might as well do a full knuckle service kit as you are going to tear the axle down that far anyway.

Inspect the wheel bearings while you have everything down and if need be replace them as well.

Front axle parts:
http://www.wabfab.org/products/frontaxle/frontaxle.htm

You can find an online FSM at autozone.com under "repair info"

 

another rebuild thread:
http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/CheapTri...eRebuild.shtml

 

some more helpful links

http://www.birfield.com/~morgan/tech/axle/index.html

http://www.4x4wire.com/toyota/mainte...nd/solid_axle/

http://www.4x4wire.com/forums/showfl...=&fpart=1&vc=1