Differential oil seal (page 2 of 2)

13. Remove and discard circlip from drive shaft.
14. Retain drive shaft clear of gearbox to give access to oil seal.
15. Carefully prise oil seal out of differential housing; discard oil seal.

Refit

1. Thoroughly clean oil seal recess and splines of drive shaft.
2. Lubricate new oil seal with gearbox oil. See INFORMATION, Capacities, fluids and lubricants.

3. Locate seal on tool 18G 1354-16 with lip of seal towards differential housing.
4. Carefully drift seal into differential housing until it is fully seated in recess.
5. Remove tool 18G 1354-16.
6. Fit new circlip to drive shaft.
7. Engage drive shaft in differential and push fully home.

CAUTION: Keep drive shaft horizontal to avoid damaging oil seal.

8. Pull on drive shaft joint to ensure circlip is fully engaged and retains shaft.
9. Engage hub ball joint pin in lower arm.
10. Fit castle nut to lower ball pin, tighten to 50 Nm and align split pin hole. Fit NEW split pin and bend ends over, against face of nut and ball pin.
11. Engage damper fork on damper so that alignment tab is aligned with slot in damper fork, insert lower arm bolt and fit NEW nut, fit pinch bolt. Tighten fixings when weight of vehicle is on suspension.
12. Fit road wheel(s) and tighten nuts to correct torque. See INFORMATION, Torque wrench settings.
13. Fit LH under belly panel. See BODY, Repairs.
14. Remove stand(s) and lower vehicle.
15. Tighten damper fork pinch bolt to 44 Nm and lower arm nut to 65 Nm.
16. Top-up gearbox oil. See MAINTENANCE.