<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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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