Well it has been leaking for a few days now and yes it was leaking the same before i took it offroading and is still the same....its leaking quite badly...heres a pic or 2....how do i fix it? do i have to take the whole damn front end apart??

 

pinion seal.

disconnect the driveshaft, take the pinion nut loose and pop the seal off, put the new one on tighten the pinion nut and put the driveshaft back.

the pinion nut needs to be tightened to a certain torque.

 

easier said than done im sure..

 

make sure that's where your leak is for sure and not just where it is collecting from a leak somewhere else, because that looks like where my leak builds up and drips

 

pinion seal i just did mine it was easy with an impact gun, if you dont have one its gonna be a b**ch good luck

 

ive gone through 2 of them in the last year

 

mine leaks too..haha

but its from the cover not from the shaft..but im not worried bout it..i add oil to it every 2 weeks but its never down more then a half a quart..and since im gunna be choppin it all off im just stayin on top of it..i NEVER use 4wd tho so im iight..

 

haha thats one way to look at it!!

 

Mine is on it's 3rd pinion seal, and it's leaking. Mine usually doesn't leak nowhere near that bad, but it still leaks. I don't know why they do that. I wil say this though, when it's replaced this time....I'm doing it. It seems that when it's gotten replaced before was when I didn't have time to do it myself, and had to pay $250 to get it done. This time I'll make the time. How much can the damn seal cost $25-35 ?

 

prob 10 bucks

 

just ordered mine 5.95 for the seal......i install everything myself so i save the big bucks there

 

I had to do both of my axle seals and my pinion seal back in the day....it was a PITA because of the front shafts..but the hardest part about it is getting something that will knock the seal in strait......if you dont have the seal install tools....

We looked around my ex's garage forever to find something...finally we came up with the top to a fence post the little metal cap thing...lines up perfect..

Rocky

 

anyone got a tutorial?? lol

 

Mine is leakin to..

peice of **** truck.

 

Its pretty self explainatory.....

Take the drive shaft off...... use an impact and remove the nut.....remove the seal (pry but dont mess up the surface of the front diff....)

Pop the new one in.....put the driveshaft back...

top off the fluid...

Rocky

 

guess i will attempt this tomorrow when the seal comes in....i will let yall know what i **** up...lol

 

i have beat the royal hell outa my truck, and no probs yet (knock on wood) well except messing up the engine..

 

the pinion nut was a bioch it took me everything i had to undo it..i was using a breaker bar also.....air tools wouldnt pull em off.....then again iam using a small compressor also

 

You should of made a tutorial for it

 

iam to lazy to type crap up...lol

 

believe it or not i didn't use air compressor i have a dewalt electric impact gun and it took a lil while but def saved me time in the long run

 

i guarantee you that it is not a pinion seal! i just fixed the same problem on my truck. it's the lower edge of the front diff seal leaking....

i'll put $50 on it

all you gotta do is pull the front driveshaft out and take off the front cover. run a small bead along the outside edge of the sealing surface and then a second bead along the inside sealing edge using Ultra Grey RTV.


whole thing takes roughly 6 to 7 hours with just hand tools

 

all you have to do to prove whether it's the pinion seal or not is just put it in 4HI drive around for about 10 minutes to get a little bit of friction heat built up and the temperature of the fluid up a little bit, park it, get under there with a can of brake cleaner, soak everything on the diff and driveshaft that has oil residue then wipe it down. wait an hour or two and go back and check it...


if it was the pinion seal there would be fresh oil residue all over the undercarriage and crossmembers.

 

i guess you owe him 50 bux

 

how do you figure?

trust me, i've had both of them go out on my truck! that's the front diff seal!