<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">What Bob says. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">The inner seal on the axle is the critical piece and if there is wear on the sealing surface you will need to fit a Speedi-Sleeve or similar repair piece.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">BTW SKF and others make what they call semi-sealed or sealed bearings with plastic or fibre pieces on one or both sides of the bearing but since the sealed ones are not filled with oil I have never understood how they are supposed to get lubrication.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Best--Michael Oritt</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 5:06 PM Bob Haskell <<a href="mailto:rchaskell@earthlink.net" target="_blank">rchaskell@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>Mike,</p>
<p>The bearings are lubricated with the rear axle oil. No grease.
Oil flows between the axle shaft and the axle housing to around to
the bearing. Yes, the paper gasket has to be oil tight. The oil
seal keeps the oil from lubricating the brake shoes.<br>
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Can someone explain how the hub oil seals are meant to work. They
are inbord of the hub bearings. Are the hubs meant to be packed
with grease? ( the service manual suggests they should, but the
same manual doesn't tell you to pack the hub with grease when
changing hub bearings and seals). Is the back axle oil intended to
pass across the oil seal to the hub bearing? If so, then the paper
gasket in the hub flange to half-shaft joint will need to be oil
tight.
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