Tools
Gear
So Im going to basically put in with a few steps and other tips I have done.
Loosen up your wheel nuts before jacking the wheel up
Crack your outer hub bolts with the wheel on the ground - 10mm bolts. Remove the bolts and pull out the face and dial.
Your next faced with a "C" clip on the end of the axle you cant remove the outer hub casing until you have taken this off. Its good to have the right tool for this or screw drivers can do it
You then need to remove the bolts from your outer hub casing they are 12mm. I use a screw driver in the wheel studs to crack them.
Take of your caliper bolts on the back are 17mm (generally, the other side of mine where actually hex key bolts)
Next if you have the special wheel bearing toll you can remove the nuts if not use a screw driver on the corners to loosen them up. Remember there is a lock tab in the middle stopping them from moving, bend the tabs back first.
Its should go Lock nut - lock washer - another nut - Lock washer
Take your hub of generally the disk will seperate easily if not knock it of if you want for puttting in the new collars and wheel bearings later.
Next remove the four bolts that hold on the casing and backing plate for your brake caliper, these are a 14mm bolt. Note the way the backing plate is as you take it off for putting it back on remember the cast writing faces inwards towards the 4by
Next you can remove your Kinpin bolts top and bottom 12mm bolt. Remember to note top and bottom I normally put the top one on the Spring and the bottom on the group to remember. Also look at how many shims are on each one for when you put it back and you are cleaning the gear up for re-assembly. You can then remove your axle. At this stage after removing the hub as I am on the passenger side the axle is longer, Im not sure if it has anything to do with the High steer knuckle but when you put this back together I needed to put the axle in before the sliding the knuckle over and putting the kinpin bearings in. It could have something to do with the amount of movement in maneuvering the longer axle back into the center of the diff? Originally I followed the way everything came out and couldn't get axle back in. I had to take of the new seals and other kinpin gear to get it in.
After this remove all the scraper seal bolts on the back of the swivel hub they are 10mm bolts, not how your metal brackets come of and are mounted as it is tricky getting them back on. the inner metal tabs mount as a upside down "U" and the outer ones that capture the felt and scaper seal mount like a "C".
Okay next clean up all your gear of oil and other dirt and crap. Remove your old axle seal with a big screw driver its not hard to pop it out. Knock your Kinpin bearing collars out with a punch and hammer (stop hammer time LOL)
At this stage things started getting late, so had to speed things up. But basically remove your old wheel bearing collars. knock your new ones in. re-pack your wheel bearings and kinpin bearings. Slide your new scraper seal on its easier to do it before putting in the new kinpin collars on. put the new felt on rest them up the back for now.
Pack your bearings scraping the bearing over your palm till the grease pushes out the tops all the way around.
Pack your CV's with new grease put your new seal in slide the axle back in.
Put your new collars in, put the bearings in. Slide your swivel hub back over, do up the bolts for the Kinpins top and bottom.
Mount up your plates on the back of the swivel hub make sure to capture the scraper seal properly. I started from the tops to hold them in then tightened the nuts up from the middles out.
Start putting your gear all back on the way it came out. Put your new locker washer in bend the tabs over locking the bearings into place make sure they are tight but not to much that they cant spin. Put your hub casing back on, put your "C" clip back on and the out case. Tighten it all up and put your wheel back on. You will probably want to check all the gear after a wheeling trip or 500ks or so. Sometimes I have even had to tighten up the bolts a little on the wheel bearings.
All that work.
just finished doing this to my diffs last weekend and having never done it before it woulda been good to see this...good work
