I was just inform that I did not mention what vehicle I am
talking about :-(((
It is an M35A2.
> It has been two weeks since I changed the left front axle
> seals and boot, about 400 miles ago. It stayed dry until
> yesterday. I am in the habit of looking inside the wheel to
> see if it is dry or wet now, so I looked and it was dry. I
> drove the truck to the office, about 2 miles, and when I got
> out the wheel was soaked with 80-90 oil. Couldn't see where
> it was coming out of, but it was in the rim and all over the
> tire, inside and out. Took off the wheel and drum,
> the brakes
> were completely dry. The grease insite the nuckle
> housing was
> very thin, mixed REAL good with 80-90 oil. So we took the
> axle the inner seal out to see if there was any damage we
> could see. Everything looked normal. But there is no way
> everything is normal since axle oil got pass the inner seal.
> The axle has a very slight indentation around where the seal
> fits, and I mean "very slight". I put a new seal
> on the axle
> to see if it will slide easier on that area, but
> couldn't tell
> any difference. (yeah right, 5200 "original" miles on the
> truck, just long enough for a rubber seal to ware
> some of the
> axle metal :-)
>
> Anyway. The only thing I can think of is that we used an
> inner seal which was not sealed or wrapped in anything, and
> maybe was dry.
>
> Anybody has any words of wisdom here for me?
>
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