Sorry Mike it has to be the one way only and you have to take it totally apart.
By the way. The original seals were leather. Your new ones will be made of some
sort of fiber. Let us know how you do. My mentor told me to be careful with the
flanges not to bend them.
"Harmon, Mike" wrote:
> Help again!
> Yesterday I wrote asking how to remove the oil seals in the 1974 TR6 as I
> couldn't get the driving flange off the shaft. I got what seemed to be
> great suggestions. Take the oil seal housing and inner axle shaft out then
> remove the housing from the rear. I tried this. The oil seal housing and
> axle came out easily with the axle shaft bearing from the . I put my puller
> on the housing and tightened down. The bearing and housing started coming
> off but then after a short movement the bearing hit a slight ridge on the
> axle shaft just before the splines start. This is ridge is part of the
> design of the shaft so it doesn't appear the bearing can be taken off from
> the rear. Surely there is a way to replace just the oil seals without
> replacing everything new and starting from scratch. It doesn't make since
> to me that the driving flange has to be pressed on and off the axle shaft to
> get to the oil seal. I do plan to get a TR6 factory workshop manual but I
> don't have one yet. Does it tell how this task should be done?
> Thanks,
> Mike H
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