<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>If you just want to replace the o-ring and gasket under the axle flange you do not have to remove the hub. If you want to replace the seal that rides on the axle housing then yes, you have to pull the hub.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><br>Sent from my keyboard</div><div><br>On Sep 23, 2018, at 6:58 PM, Ron Soave via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">No hub removal. Should take all of 25 minutes to do. <div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Ron Soave</div><div><br>On Sep 23, 2018, at 3:44 PM, Lester via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8">Ok, last question, is this possible and practical WITHOUT removing the hub?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lester</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks for all the help so far guys!\\<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 23, 2018, at 1:39 PM, Kevin Valentine <<a href="mailto:kevinv1275@gmail.com" class="">kevinv1275@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Lester,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You will need the seal (gasket) and the rubber o-ring. It's not difficult to change.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Parts 24 and 26 on this page;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.victoriabritish.com/icatalog/sm/full.aspx?Page=51" class="">http://www.victoriabritish.com/icatalog/sm/full.aspx?Page=51</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do you have a haynes manual? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You will need to pull the axle, but that's easy too ;)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jack up the car higher on the side you are working on. That will keep the diff lube from leaking out when you remove the axle.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kevin V.</div><div class="">Tuscarora, Pa</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 10:04 AM, Lester via Spridgets<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank" class="">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">Well shit.<br class=""><br class="">There was a smear of crud around the outside of the hub, smell of diff fluid. So what does it take to replace the axle seal?<br class=""><br class="">Lester<br class=""><span class=""><br class=""><br class="">> On Sep 22, 2018, at 7:22 PM, Rick Fisk via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" class="">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Has the fluid level in the brake master gone down? With regular brake fluid I can tell by the feel that it's brake fluid. When I get it on my finger and rub my finger and thumb together it has a "squeaky" feel. Don't know if that works with silicone as I've never used the stuff.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Sent from my keyboard<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">>> On Sep 22, 2018, at 7:30 PM, Lester Ewing via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" class="">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">>> Good Afternoon all,<br class="">>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">>> So there I was cleaning all the gunk off the drum and springs and it hit me, is the fluid I am cleaning off brake fluid (Silicone) or is it diff oil? It’s rained a bunch here so I can’t smell anything on the ground. Externally, the signs would be the same right: Fluid trail down tire, gunk all inside of drum and all over shoes. I didn’t get that sulphur smell but I may have put synthetic oil in the diff a decade ago or so when I cleaned things up. 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