Ed,
I’m not
sure about other years, but my 56 Dodge, and probably all other Mopars with
inner and outer axle shaft grease seals, has a small plug at each end of the axle
tube. You are supposed to remove these plugs and add wheel bearing grease for
the outer bearings, every 2 years or 20,000 miles. See your Shop Manual in the
Lubrication section. These outer bearings are not supposed to get any lube from
the gear oil and a slow leak is not going to be adequate.
Now for
those cars which have not had this done for 40 or 50 years, a leaky inner seal
might be a good thing. A little gear oil is better than NO oil.
These
bearings were designed to be lubed by grease, not by a much thinner gear oil.
Gear oil may reduce their life expectancy.
Dave
Homstad
56 Dodge
D500
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From: Forward Look Mopar
Discussion List [mailto:L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ed Eckerson
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006
4:45 PM
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Subject: [FWDLK] REAR
AXLES---REBUILD EXPERIENCE
Hello all
I am
rebuilding my entire rear end (so to speak) on my 59 Sport Fury.
I had heard a
while back that one should NOT replace the INNER grease seal??????????
This was
because the wheel bearing would get more 'splash' from the rear gears without
it, and the outer seal prevents the oil from escaping.
Supposedly
the bearing only gets marginal lubrication with the inner seal in place.
ANY
EXPERIENCE OR COMMENTS????
Thank you
ED ECKERSON
LI NY
d
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