Too Much Grime?

E-Type
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Two great years and 4500 miles of fun! But time to put it down for its biennial.
Rear hub area:
This looks to be about right grime to me

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But (hard to see) the right side is 3X as grimy
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Especially on hub carrier, wishbone, radius arm and lower parts of shocks/springs.
How does it look to you all? Thinking about clean-n-go then watch?
Trying not to think about a seal!

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I get the same, and like yours mainly on the right. Mine is a leaky rear main and I have to guess it’s a direction of rotation thing. It sprays out with some right bias.

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I agree with Erica. The engine oil leak spray goes to the right. I had a front main seal leak and the right underside of my car was nicely preserved.

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My guess is that oil mostly accumulates on the bottom of the crank and it gets flung off the crank quickly in the direction of rotation once past the seals.

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Aargh! I was trying not to think about a hub seal. Now I’m trying not to think about “THE” seal. Well, I will be under there cleaning up and will see if I can trace it forward as you suspect.

Thanks for the help!
Craig

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That’s honestly not so bad for 4500 miles. Mine looks like that after 500 miles, hence the engine is coming out soon.

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I think it looks great because it was honestly earned.

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