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I would not recommend that technique. At worse, I would try to dissolve & ‘blow off’ the grease with a Brake-Kleen type product. But grease or oil seeps in to the brake shoe material pretty deep and there’s no way to get it all out. Separation from swelling or contracting is pretty likely and...
IMO, the OEM seals always worked fine. Of course now & then you simply get a bad new seal.
As said below by another member be sure to seal up that keyway. The outer seal is supposed to keep dirt, dust, water, and GL from leaching in. Use a new axle flange gasket too.
With the bearing...
Maybe it’s just the pictures; but, it looks like a couple of wheel lug nut studs are pushed back in. Also, in the one photo it seems as if the gear lube (GL) is dripping out from the hub & not the center bore of the axle housing where the axle slides in.
I simply do not remember 2.5 tons have...
What year & model deuce is this? I don’t remember a rear axle seal but remember inner & outer hub seals. I thought the axle was sealed but the gasket on the axle flange.