Wheel seal

[CGarbee]

While crawling under my M35A2c yesterday (lube service time...), I noticed that I have a leaking seal on my left rear rear axle... (got that anoying drip of gear lube on the inside of the tire...)

Anyone have a suggestion as to the best supplier (cost, quality of parts) for the seals? Anything I should be replacing/checking while I've got things torn down? Advice from folks who have done this before?

My coworker who rebuilds these things "one weekend a month" is in Iraq right now so I'm missing my local expert...

Thanks,

 

[ironhorsethegeneral]

we live in georgia and we get our seals from Seco which is Southeastern equipment company in Augusta, GA their number is 706-798-7500 hope this helps

 

[ajg6989]

get some emory cloth to clean up the spindle and remember during reassembly to spin the hub after torque it it willl lossen alittle until it properly torqued

 

[baja_power]

Give me a little bit, I destoryed a hub and innards on my front axle and i will do a play by play how to thread on installing these things..

 

[mangus580]

Baja, could you build that play by play into a tech article?

 

[baja_power]

worth a shot. its already torn down. so it would be the second half only...

 

[m35a2cowner]

I have the same truck you do and was plagued by the same problem you are describing. It took me a while (and an Internet posting) to realize that the wheel bearings are NOT lubricated by the gear lube. I had put a couple seals in trying to stop the leak. It turns out the leak on my truck was caused by a missing piece of cork that goes under the outer wheel bearing. When looking at the seal (inner that pounds onto axle housing) I noticed there is no lip to seal oil. The lip is designed to seal dust and moisture out by rubbing on the bearing race in the hub not to seal oil. The oil is at the other end anyhow.

Cut a piece of cork (I used some from a valve cover) and put in the grove in the housing underneath the outer bearing. I also used a dab of sealer. Leave a little bit sticking out so that the axle nut will smash it when tightened Torque the nut and install the keeper and be sure the slinger seal is in the correct position. That should fix it, it did on mine.

 

[red devils dude]

cranetruck has a TA on this it's "M35A2 axle leaks" go read it helps a lot.

 

[CGarbee]

Well, I placed an order with Memphis Equipment on Friday for the seals and a few other items that I need for my M35... I'll let everyone know how things look/go when the parts arrive and I tear into it...
Thanks for all the pointers both here and by email/PM...