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I presume the bearing is grease filled. Most are. And, given the axle is a mighty hunk of steel, it's probably a pretty good heat sink. So I probably will end up trying to heat the retainer first and see if I can persuade it to shfit at all, while keeping an eye on how hot things get near the...

Ahem... I've not completely ruled it out though. Just a bit wary.

Back again to chew over this; Having looked at those rear axle tools on Amazon and a few vids of people using them [why are they only available from Amazon US? I can't find them anywhere else] I don't think they're going to be any good to me—even if I ordered one, endured the wait til it got...

Just a couple of quick additional thoughts on this: 1: I was pretty pissed off with all of this yesterday, as I'm going to visit a mate in Wales at the end of the month and i'd been hoping to get the Surf sorted by then and use that as its first road trip. I doubt that'll happen now, what with...

Indeed. Although, in this case, it feels like I'm being given detention for someone else's messing about

Well, it seems like similar tools for doing this job are available in the UK too. And on Amazon no less. So, maybe I can solve this problem by throwing even more money at it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=toyota+hilux+Rear+Axle+Bearing+%26Tone+Ring+tool Actually, I'm thinking that, if I did buy...

Well, unfortunately it seems like my theory is correct: I marked up the inner retaining ring, refitted the axle stub and gave it a good spin. When I took it back out, none of the marker lines were touched at all [Sorry. They don't show up very well in the photo]: Hmmm... time for a few...

Back to this again... after the usual hiatus of life getting in the way, Royal Mail kidnapping my oil seal puller coz of excess postage to pay and the onset of a mini monsoon season [which seems to follow me wherever I go]. Anyway, in the thumb-twiddling interim, I came across the following...

I'm just waiting for an oil seal puller to arrive, as I want to try and pull the old seal without wrecking it too much, so I can see what kind of a state it was in. So everything's on hold til the weekend. But the stub axle is out and the ABS Sensor did surrender eventually. Cheers for the...

Yes. I replaced the breather last year, hoping it might cure the problem. But since the hub and brakes were already oily, it's hard to tell if this stopped any further leakage. Hence why I'm doing the seal too.

Well, it looks like I may have been barking up the wrong tree. According to Roughtrax, the outer seal isn't an oil seal at all, but a dust seal... ...and doesn't play any part in keeping oil from oozing into the brake drum... This is actually good news as it means that [hopefully!] it's...

Yeah. I did think exactly the same. But then I followed it up by musing on the old "If it ain't broke..." adage. I'm pretty sure it's the outer seal that's the culprit. But it could be the inner... or both.

Righty oh. Finally having vanquished the ABS Sensor From Hell [coming to a cinema near you], I've finally pulled my rear stub axle and got to have a look at the seals. So, what do those of you who've "been there— done that" think of these? To my untrained eye, the inner oil seal looks fine...

Well, I got the fecker off. It looks like those 3 days of enforced layoff worked a treat at letting the PlusGas and Duck OIl penetrate to the innards. I grabbed it with the mole grips this morning and, after a couple of experimental twists, it pulled straight out. Right. Now we've got that...

I did actually think that, while I was out there today. But I'm not sure I love "future me" enough to submit "present me" to another 3 day wrrestling match.

Blummin' heck. Bob & Andy. You weren't joking about what a complete arse this is to try and get off without wrecking it. I've literally spent from about 3pm this avvy til the missus called me in for dinner at six wrestling with that bloody ABS sensor—and it's still not out. Spent the first two...

Cheers Bob. It sounds like a complete ball-ache is in store for me. But at least your reply has cleared one thing up a bit. Because I did think of trying to grab the plastic housing and exerting some gentle twisting to and fro. But, I wasn't sure whether the part of the sensor that's inside the...

PS: I know the ABS sensor bolt is in place in the photo. I stuck it back on, so I wouldn't lose it. [Just before anyone says "You've got to unbolt it first"]

Hi all. It's been centuries since I've posted here. What with the atrocious summer, autumn and winter we had last year, I hardly got anything done on the motor at all. The luxury of having a "fun project" as opposed to a "daily driver" is that I get to skive off if the weather's not conducive...

Eek! —good job I didn't get out with the pliers then. I might just leave it. In spite of its burnt looking appearance, The fuse is obiously good, as the alternator works and charges the battery. Maybe it blew previously and someone jus replaced the core [if it's the type of fuse where you do...

I thought they probably did. But didn't want to welly on it too much, in case I was missing a clip somewhere. I don't remember seeing anything clipped to the lid. So mine must be AWOL too. Ah. So, as I suspected. This is the fallout from the immobiliser having been fitted. Cheers!

Just having a nosey in the fusebox in the engine bay and came across this. It looks suspiciously burnt, but I can't work out how it comes out. It doesn't want to pull out and the wee clear plastic lid doesn't seem to want to open. Any ideas?... BTW —according to the fusebox lid, it should be...

Thanks. I can almost convince myself I can see the remains of some kind of a lamp or bulb icon on it.

We probably cross-posted there. Idle up is on the right in the second set of 3 buttons pic I posted above.

I''ve just been looking at that red button again and, if Japanese is the same as Chinese insofar as using pictogrms goes, then this seems to portray a row of high-kicking can-can dancers one of whose bras has flown off and is being caught by an old dude with a Chinaman hat on, a walking stick...

Yes, that's the one. I would have said where it was located before. But I couldn't remember and couldn't be arsed going out to check. But you've shamed me into it... I didn't get you, at first. But, thinking about it, you can't remove the key from the ignition without putting it into PARK...