Sounds like you just damaged the flange gasket.
Bill Lawrence
>From: "Healey Bruce" <healeybruce@roadrunner.com>
>To: "Healey Mail Group" <Healeys@autox.team.net>
>Subject: [Healeys] Rear axle oil seals
>Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:52:36 -0800
>
>Inspecting my rear brakes during the annual maintenance, at first all
>seemed
>OK. But tonight I discovered a puddle of gear oil under the right rear
>hub.
>I can clearly see that oil is leaking out between the hub and the driving
>flange of the axle half shaft, and dripping off the stud. I removed the
>retaining screw, and wiggling the driving flange expresses more oil from
>between it and the hub face. There is no evidence of any oil leaking
>around
>the back side of the hub around the rear axle casing. So, having never
>torn
>into an axle before, I have some pretty basic questions:
>
>1. Does this indicate that the oil seal has failed, as I'm assuming? Or
>is
>it possible that the joint washer between hub and the driving flange just
>needs replacing?
>
>2. From reading the shop manual, it looks like I will need to pull the hub
>and bearing to get to the oil seal. I can see I'll need to rent a puller
>for this. Any tips/suggestions on this process? It's also a bit of a
>mystery to me how the bearings stay lubricated, with the oil seal inboad of
>them.
>
>3. The manual's directions for refitting of the oil seal, bearing and hub
>are not terribly detailed, and I don't get how to actually measure that the
>bearing spacer is protruding .001-.004 inch beyond the outer face of the
>hub
>and paper washer. Can you check this with a feeler gauge? What about the
>tubular drift to drive the hub back on?
>
>4. The Moss catelogue shows an O-ring and an oil seal, while the service
>manual shows only the seal. ???
>
>5. Finally, after studying the exploded views of both the shop manual and
>the Moss catelogue, and evidencing my lack of experience with tearing apart
>an axle, I'm having trouble visualizing how the hub is actually mounted.
>If
>you can pull the axle shaft out without removing the hub, what does the hub
>locknut thread onto? It seems like it would have to mounted to axle
>somehow.
>
>Thanks in advance for advice.
>
>Bruce Steele
>1960 BN7
>Brea, CA
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