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Originally Posted by animatedsnail
Hi,
I've just spent the day!! I know!! fitting new seals on the rear hub to stop the leak. Everything sort of went fine ( I still don't know If I put the seals the right way around) but on reading the haynes manual after completing the job they talk about placing a dial on the end of the stub axle to measure hub endfloat! Does the 90 TD (1990) have a stub axle? should I put a dial on the half shaft to measure endfloat? Do I really need to do this anyway?
Any help would be gratefully received,
Jon
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The stub axle is at the front.
The rear axle seals go with the open ends facing inwards towards each other, I usually pack them with some grease it gives them a chance to bed in better. I dont have a picture of the hub you mention though so this is the normal way.
If it's tapered bearings then you need a slight pre-load on them, take them up tight, spin the hub a few times to settle it, back off the adjusting nut then take it back up with a slight preload, check you have no lift when you rock the hub, then run the locknut up tight and lock the tabs over, make sure when you do the locknut you dont move the inside nut and increase the preload.
there will be a proper loading for it but I doubt that you will have the tools to do it, the way I described is the way we have done it for years on vehicles.
See if you can download the doc.