I can guess at the concept, kinda like painting a pinion gear to check for contact?

Yeah I'm good. I truly believe pelican wouldn't sell them if they weren't acceptable.

I've been entertaining the idea of putting some grease zerks on the outside of the hub. One near each bearing, and a plug on the other side that could be removed to allow air out. Like once a year put a few shots in from the grease gun.

I've done this in front bearings straight into the cap that covers from the outside. Worked good. I didn't have a place for air to escape but just went slow and the seal was fine.


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Indeed - just to make sure they are sitting in the cups properly - difficult to do when not under the expected loading of course...

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I think I'm not ready for that yet. Lol.

With trucks I became a fan of toyota and ford 9" rear ends because you can order a complete third member when rear gearing and adding lockers.

Someone stop me if putting grease zerks in is a bad idea. I'm doing the right side bearings, and not so much worried about it, but doing it will tell me where to drill on the left side, so I can add some grease before they start singing.


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I see little point in your modification on the front covers - it won't reach the bearings - if you pump in too much it might be a way of getting those sodding caps off more easily though!

As for the back - well I know it is a ball ache replacing the bearings on the trailing arms but they seem to be good for about 25 years or so...

...so there's plenty of time to recover from the trauma.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I'm kinda excited about it. Lol.

I did the cap trick on trailers that saw lots of miles. The grease works itself through the bearings and we saw significantly more miles. Granted, the trailers were always overloaded.

I'm nervous about drilling into such a rare and expensive hub. But from the side I can get right next to the bearing. Maybe even do two, one for each bearing.

And yeah, not worried about the right. Just the left which is unknown.

Maybe I can just look and drill on the left side....

Edit: peaked under and thought about the disk covering the hub. My only place to drill is right next to the cv. I'm gonna tackle this right side and think about. Left cv coming out eventually and will do it then maybe.

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Alright the experienced gentleman was working today's at the parts store. The consensus was drilling the hub will weaken it to much.

I get home with the clutch master sticking down and hardly working. Both master and slave leak, I was planning on adding to my order for my head rebuild from pelican, but gotta get a rushed eBay order in right now. I barely got it in the garage and it's not moving without them.

Looking up this centric brand on fleabay. They also have beck arnley for a little bit more, I've had good luck with them.


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So FSM and multiple post claim there is clearance to get the axle out. I disconnected the shock upper nut, and have the trailing arm resting on the stop. I have the axle out of the splines, it almost clears. I can tap on it, FSM is showing a tool to push it out.

Any tips or tricks on this? I don't want to beat on it too hard with a drift... But I can.


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Here's my home brew method. FSM and people are saying the axle should have the play required.

I dropped a 17 mm deep socket dropped in against the axle. And used the 3 jaw puller. Got just enough play. Few. I panicked for a second.




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This is going easy. Got the new bearing in the oven and hub in the freezer. Thank you all for your write ups that make my life easier.

Inner race was easy with a driver. Stuck on this outer race as my driver won't fit. I've done these with just a drift before, but being spoiled so far is not making me feel not strong enough or something, it's not budging

Since the ovens on I'm tempted to make cookies.


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