04-01-2022, 07:23 PM
Dennis, I have had trouble fitting lip seals on both hubs and rear diff seals they were always too large to be a push fit and had damaged both types of seal in trying.
My solution, probably not what is considered perhaps “good engineering practice” but I simply dressed the outer rubber of the seal with a very fine flat faced needle file, ensuring I was extremely careful to just take very little off at any time and obviously ensuring you kept moving around the seal to ensure it didn’t end up like a thru’penny bit.
I kept trial fitting until I could eventually press, with some effort, into its seating.
The seals installed were a tight fit into their housing and could not easily be removed, at no point was any of the internal steel in the seal exposed.
Denis S
My solution, probably not what is considered perhaps “good engineering practice” but I simply dressed the outer rubber of the seal with a very fine flat faced needle file, ensuring I was extremely careful to just take very little off at any time and obviously ensuring you kept moving around the seal to ensure it didn’t end up like a thru’penny bit.
I kept trial fitting until I could eventually press, with some effort, into its seating.
The seals installed were a tight fit into their housing and could not easily be removed, at no point was any of the internal steel in the seal exposed.
Denis S