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Swivel repair kit
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:16 pm
by St Jimmy
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:41 pm
by Danzo
same one I bought,
Perfect fit!
88 W/T
I have been deep muddin twice since the install, no leaks and no noises,
Great so far.
I replaced my front wheel bearings at the same time as well.
dont forget there is 4 wheelbearing, 2 each side!!
some places I rang up wanted $45 for each bearing not including the seals
I got a mate to buy the kit for me and it only cost $120. tradie rates lol
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:57 pm
by Pezooki
I just did one of these kits on my zook. I had problems with one of the axle oil seals - which started leaking straight away. This meant pulling the whole thing down again to replace the seal (with a genuine one this time).
With the new genuine axle seals - no more leaks!
I have done this sort of thing many times before and I am always VERY careful with new seals (grease on the lip and as little pressure on the seal when installing the axle as possible.)
The rest of the kit was a good fit. If I were you I would go and grab 2 new genuine (or as good as you can get from your local bearing bloke) seals and chuck out the eBay ones. For the cost of a $3 seal it's cheap insurance...
I have heard of others with the same problem using the eBay kit too.
Good luck with the job!
Pez
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:03 pm
by St Jimmy
I thought i would put one in when i put my locker in kill two birds with one stone
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:06 pm
by Pezooki
Now is definitely the best time to do it then!
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:32 pm
by Danzo
Pezooki wrote:I just did one of these kits on my zook. I had problems with one of the axle oil seals - which started leaking straight away. This meant pulling the whole thing down again to replace the seal (with a genuine one this time).
With the new genuine axle seals - no more leaks!
I have done this sort of thing many times before and I am always VERY careful with new seals (grease on the lip and as little pressure on the seal when installing the axle as possible.)
The rest of the kit was a good fit. If I were you I would go and grab 2 new genuine (or as good as you can get from your local bearing bloke) seals and chuck out the eBay ones. For the cost of a $3 seal it's cheap insurance...
I have heard of others with the same problem using the eBay kit too.
Good luck with the job!
Pez
now that you mention it the seals that came with that kit did look simpler then the proper Zook ones, but if ya buy the proper zook front bearing kit, it should have the proper seals in it!!
Mine did
