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swivel pin housing rear seal... easy to change?

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Range Rover Blues:
Agreed.  The swivel preload should be set witht the oil seal removed anyway.  You can either pull the halfshaft out of the swivel then remove the ball, or if you are a strong bloke pull the swivel, stub and halfshaft/CV out in one peice.

However, seal failure often indicates the swivel is pitted and has damaged the seal, so you may be wasting time and money.

john656:
RRB, would this pitting be noticable from under the car? If so the swivel has no visable pitting and feels nice and smooth to touch with no signs of any dimples etc?

Range Rover Blues:
I usually find the piting easy to trace because you can see a smear of oil/grease form where the oil seal has been damaged.  If the chrome surface is all good and shiney then you have done well, they don't often last long enough for the oil seal to wear out.

I put PTFE swivels on Blue last time and they havn't lasted very well at all, within 2 years they were pitted and the finish has worn off.

bogie:
Personely i would drain the oil out,fill it with grease and put a spot of ep90 in,its cheaper than one shot and it does the job very well and hopefully it wont leak!

Range Rover Blues:
Having found that one shot turns into oil soon anyway I use Lucas hub oil now, it's better than one-shot and works out cheaper.

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