Front diff right seal

[Worzella]

I am pretty certain my 2012 LR4 front diff right hand/passenger side seal is leaking. I have gear oil drips each morning on the garage floor and the picture shows it dripping on tube mount just below seal. On parts diagram, it involves 1, 3 and 4. Two questions:

1) Anybody paid to have this fixed. If so, curious about the ball park cost.

2) Anybody tackled this job themselves? I don't have a lift and not sure if special tools needed. Going to read service manual this eve, but always appreciate advice from someone who has suffered through the job.

Thanks

 

[Worzella]

No replies but I finally got a quote from my indy shop here in Winston Salem, NC. I am pretty sure this is not normal in video Seems c-clip at diff side spline broke or last mechanic did not bother to install. About $700 parts, labor and new fluid. Seems flopping axle beat the seal all to hell, hence leak.

OK video too large but these are two shots of shaft in and out..the mechanic was just moving it axially with his hand.

 

[16FujiDisco]

Wow! Had you had work done related to that in the past?

Price seems pretty reasonable to me; not hard work, just a good bit of time

 

[Worzella]

I just bought in Oct '25 and no history of prior work. I probably could tackle but my girlfriends daily and I am not known for getting a car job done in short time So left it to the pros..

 

[Worzella]

After they looked deeper, the axle spline was trashed but spline bore looked OK. So had to fork out for new axle and multiple diff fill/flushes to clean out glitter.

 

[powershift]

That looks major. The t-cases are pretty robust except the shift-on-the-fly wore out on mine. It started to bind while shifting out of 4H and into 4L. If I stop and shift it doesn't have a problem. But that axle shaft looks like it was not all the way installed, that must be why your boot wouldn't stay on if its the same shaft.