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Front axle seal replacement 2013 jku

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Hello all, I need to replace the front seals on my jku
I do not know where to start???
Are the seals outside or inside the dif?
I have over 173000km’s on her
 
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Front axel seal on the 'short end' passenger side on a RHD was weeping 3 years back.
Had previously been replaced with a Crown brand.
Replaced both with new Mopar two part seals.
Quite an operation teasing out the diff gearing to access them and scraping the axel tubes free of debris, which I left to someone whose done a few.
I know my limitations.
I unusually use Red Line 75W-140 to fill them.
 
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I am getting ready to place the order for my front axles, should I just replace the seals or the whole axles while taking it apart?
as for bearings, what should I do get
2013 Sahara unlimited
Looking at axles, wow so many choices, I am getting lost in this, what should I stay away from? What is decent and what do you all recommend? I mainly use it as a daily y