Removed the left side hub to check/repack the wheeel bearings last
night. Based on my research on this list I thought I would be in
for a struggle with the inner bearing seal. On mine however the
seal in pushed into the hub and came off with the hub. I pulled it
out with my finegers, checked and repacked the bearings, pushed the
seal back into the hub and completed the job. The seal is in great
shape and certainly fits nicely.
I am comfused though as I inderstood from this list that the seal
is or should be on the spindle and is difficult to remove and needs
to be fully seated on the spindle - when re-assembling.
Am I missing something or does the 95 have have adifferent seal set
up?
Help
hayden
95XJ6
86XJ6
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hudge
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In reply to a message from hudge sent Thu 25 Jun 2009:
This can cause some confusion. The correct installation of the
seal, provided it is the correct seal, is to drive it onto the axle
shaft, then mount the bearing and hub assembly.
Most other applications call for the seal to be mounted into the
hub, and then installed it as an assembly.
In fact, if you look to the Haynes Manual for an XJ40, which is the
same as an X300, the instructions call for the seal to be mounted
into the hub. This is wrong.
What can happen, and it happend to me on my XJ40, is if you follow
the Haynes instructions, you may get a false adjustment when you
tighten the axle nut. This is because the seal does not go all of
the way home on the axle. So, over time, and you drive the car, and
it slips further up the axle, you find you need to re-adjust the
front wheel bearings or you may burn them up prematurely. If you
look to the XJ40 section, I think you will find many people talk
about how their front wheels get out of adjustment. I think this
is why.
Correctly installed, it takes a bit of effort to get those seals on
(and off) the axle. Once you do it correctly, you will understand
why it would be allmost impossible to get them properly set using
the Haynes method.
If your existing seal was good, and not damaged, and did not leak,
I would not worry about it. But, if you do use a new one in the
future, you may not be able to mount it the same way.–
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Removed the left side hub to check/repack the wheeel bearings last
night. Based on my research on this list I thought I would be in
for a struggle with the inner bearing seal. On mine however the
seal in pushed into the hub and came off with the hub. I pulled it
out with my finegers, checked and repacked the bearings, pushed the
seal back into the hub and completed the job. The seal is in great
shape and certainly fits nicely.
–
uncle
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The seal is supposed to be installed on the spindle/stub axle. In my
experience its a huge, enormous, and very large PITA.
I’ve had my hubs off a couple times. Both times one seal came off with the
hub and one seal remained on the stub axle.
If yours are not leaking, and you have no problem adjusting the bearings and
keeping them adjusted, I wouldn’t give it another thought. But, technically,
yes the seals are installed onto the axles and not in the hubs.
Other will chime it.
Cheers
Doug Dwyer
Longview Washington USA
1995 XJRFrom: “hudge” hudgenyoni@HoTMaiL.com
Based on my research on this list I thought I would be in
for a struggle with the inner bearing seal. On mine however the
seal in pushed into the hub and came off with the hub. I pulled it
out with my finegers, checked and repacked the bearings, pushed the
seal back into the hub and completed the job. The seal is in great
shape and certainly fits nicely.
I am comfused though as I inderstood from this list that the seal
is or should be on the spindle and is difficult to remove and needs
to be fully seated on the spindle - when re-assembling.
Am I missing something or does the 95 have have adifferent seal set
up?
In reply to a message from hudge sent Thu 25 Jun 2009:
Thanks Uncle,
I appreciate the feedback. In my case the seals simply slides on or
off the spindle and is not a tight fit at all, infact it seems to
be made to push into the hub as it fits nice and tight in there.
So play with the wheel bearing so I will monitor closely
Thanks
hayden–
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I should have read your reply before posting mine, Unc ! 
Doug Dwyer
Longview Washington USA
1995 XJRFrom: “uncle” dbernard@qts-inc.com
Correctly installed, it takes a bit of effort to get those seals on
(and off) the axle. Once you do it correctly, you will understand
why it would be allmost impossible to get them properly set using
the Haynes method.
If your existing seal was good, and not damaged, and did not leak,
I would not worry about it. But, if you do use a new one in the
future, you may not be able to mount it the same way.
In reply to a message from hudge sent Thu 25 Jun 2009:
Sorry about the typo in my last message
meant to say
‘‘No play in the wheel bearing but will monitor it closely’’
hayden–
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So play with the wheel bearing so I will monitor closely
hayden
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