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110 wheel bearing help

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Niel:
Well the bearings on mine were re-lubed and have run ok til now, but as I'm in there doing the brake's I'm replacing them.

Now mine's an early one with 2 seals per hub, 1 to stop the axle oil getting to the bearings, lots of stuff on-line about leaving the seal inside the axle/hub (depends on model) out, even grinding a flat on the half shaft seal running section, so axle oil can, like on a series, get to the wheel bearings and lube them. So grease first to start with then + oil, it's supposed to be better at resisting water entry too.

Opinions?

trecfive:
The advantage is you know a lot sooner that the bearing is going again/seal wearing out by the oil leak. The disadvantage is its a lot more to clean up the brake shoes/drum from the contaminated oil.

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