Leaking front axle cause/repair?

[Arctic Fox]

As you can see in the picture I have a leak on the front right side. I'm rather new to this and am wondering what may be the cause and what I may need to do to fix this.

Thanks.

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[mtl111]

The axle seal is leaking. Drain differential, remove CV axle, remove "stub" axle out of front differential. Remove old seal, drive in new seal, reassemble the rest. Thats a pretty quick explanation of how to do it. A service manual with details and torque specs are needed. It's not too tough!

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[Arctic Fox]

The axle seal is leaking. Drain differential, remove CV axle, remove "stub" axle out of front differential. Remove old seal, drive in new seal, reassemble the rest. Thats a pretty quick explanation of how to do it. A service manual with details and torque specs are needed. It's not too tough!

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Thank you for the reply. I'll see what I can do to fix this!

 

[Arctic Fox]

It turns out the vent for the front end was plugged by mud daubers. Once those were removed the leak stopped.

 

[Vikingdude]

I thought my driver's side was leaning like crazy, actually changed it twice. Turns out the o ring for the axle vent was bad. GM issued a tech bulletin years ago because the seal had a tendency to leak when synthetic oil was used in the front diff. The white plastic version is the updated one, the black plastic vent is the original one.

 

[evilunclegrimace]

No need to drain the diff, just jack up one side of the truck so that the diff lube flows to the center section and into the opposite side axle tube.

 

[89obsSB]

As you can see in the picture I have a leak on the front right side. I'm rather new to this and am wondering what may be the cause and what I may need to do to fix this.

Thanks.

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If you do ever need to change that axle seal on the passenger side you have to pull the whole tube off that side and remove the c clip. Then axle slides right out.

 

[89obsSB]

If you do ever need to change that axle seal on the passenger side you have to pull the whole tube off that side and remove the c clip. Then axle slides right out.

Driver side pops right out.