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Car Forum / Australian Car Forums / 4x4 Cars (Australian group) / January 200880 series Cruiser- Rear axle removal.- Need advice.
I've been doing the brakes on my '94 Landcruiser, no problem with that, but I've noticed a slight oil leak from the right rear axle when I pulled off the brake disk to check the handbrake and adjust. So I suspect an axle oil seal needs replacing. I have one of those rather useless Gregory's repair manuals and all it says about removing the rear axle is :- 1. Remove the axle shaft to rear hub nuts and spring washers. [OK done, removed six 12mm nuts and spring washers, bit tight with rust but they came off OK with WD40.] 2. Using a hammer and brass punch on the studs remove the cone washers from the axle shaft flange. {Here I'm stuck. I've tried tapping the studs with a brass drift, but nothing happens. I can see the "cone washers" but how hard do I have to belt the studs to get them out? I'm afraid to bash the studs too hard for fear of damaging them. I've applied some WD40 and let it stand overnight.} 3. Install 2 x M8x25mm bolts to the threaded holes in the axle shaft flange and tighten evenly until the flange is dislodged from the rear hub. [OK no problem, I can do that, but it seems you have to get the cone washers out first as per step 2] There are no comprehensive illustrations in the Gregory's manual to help. Can anyone please advise on how to go about step 2 to get the cone washers out, just tapping the studs even fairly hard with the brass drift dies not seem to do the trick. Cheers, MugMechanic. > 2. Using a hammer and brass punch on the studs remove the cone > washers from the axle shaft flange. {Here I'm stuck. I've tried [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > washers out, just tapping the studs even fairly hard with the brass > drift dies not seem to do the trick. Ah! cone washers, don't you just love them. Here is the big secret. Keep tapping, firmly - not gently but by the same rule you don't want to distort the studs - each one in turn. Round and round and around you go and it will look like exactly ZIP is happening..... Then, just when you have decided that i am having a laugh at your expense, and just before you give up in disgust, one little conical washer will come loose, followed soon after by another, and then all of the little bastards will give in. Patience, don't damage anything, and persistence is the BIG tip. Afterwards you will wonder "Why Toyota? Why?" -- > Ah! cone washers, don't you just love them. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Afterwards you will wonder "Why Toyota? Why?" Thanks Blue Heeler, I followed your suggestions and it worked, exactly as you said. You even got the timing right!!! I also injected some penetrating oil into the cut in the side of the cone washers with a hypodermic needle and I think that helps too. Even did the other axle too, just to loosen it up in case I need to get it out anytime. It hadn't been taken out before in 14 years. There was a little superficial rust on the studs, so I took them out with two locked nuts and cleaned them up with emery paper then put them back with some grease on the threads, same for the cone washers, should be easier next time. The instructions in those Gregory's car manuals are woefully inadequate on a lot of subjects, unless you already know exactly how to do every operation. They lack details that people who most need a manual, like me who only does such a job once or twice in a lifetime, really need. Just saying do this or remove that can sometimes leave one wondering, HOW??. I've been doing minor maintenance on my cars for forty years, not enough to learn all the tricks, as you just get used to one vehicle and it gets too old to keep bothering with then you get a new set of problems with a new vehicle. Thanks be for the internet and helpful people like Blue Heeler. Blessed be his illustrious name!! > Ah! cone washers, don't you just love them. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Afterwards you will wonder "Why Toyota? Why?" And on the seventh day the lord did open the pearly panellift door to his Patrol, and it came to pass that he popped the hood to gaze upon the TD42 he had created, and he saw that it was good, the whistling snailcurled serpent was across the motor to the 6 sets of pipes, and this too was good. So the Lord closed the hood and did drive from the garden of Nizmo, until he came to the house of Toyota where Satan was complaining that his pinion gear had protruded through his tin can diff cover. And the Lord didst ask "Why art thou persisting with that crap? Turn thee to the light, and see that it is Nissan". And Satan grunted, for his mistress had just had words with him about the Toyota parts charged on his mastercard statement, and he was of foul humour. Seeing this, the Lord didst spin his 4 Mud Terrains on the lawn all the way into 4th, and lo Satan was buried in clods of couch grass and he was unable to see the light. And so it came to pass that Satan remained loyal to the house of Toyota. > > Afterwards you will wonder "Why Toyota? Why?" > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > And so it came to pass that Satan remained loyal to the house of > Toyota. Gold! -- If you want manuals have a look at these. You may find what you want. These I believe are manufacturers manuals. Cheers Trev > I've been doing the brakes on my '94 Landcruiser, no problem with that, > but I've noticed a slight oil leak from the right rear axle when I pulled [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > MugMechanic. Sorry I forgot to post the link. http://forums.bauchan.org/portal/downloads.php Cheers Trev > If you want manuals have a look at these. You may find what you want. > These I believe are manufacturers manuals. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >> >> MugMechanic. > Sorry I forgot to post the link. > http://forums.bauchan.org/portal/downloads.php [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >>> washers out, just tapping the studs even fairly hard with the brass drift >>> dies not seem to do the trick. try backing off the nuts 5 mil or so. then, using a reasonably heavy club hammer, belt the axle HARD in the middle.....the cones should all pop out......this is the method used on heavy vehicles...100% success rate. >>> Cheers, >>> >>> MugMechanic.  SignatureDon`t be sexist...........Broads hate that. > Sorry I forgot to post the link. > http://forums.bauchan.org/portal/downloads.php > Cheers > Trev Thanks mate, lucky I checked back to this thread, I had not been able to find that before, much better than the Gregory's. |
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