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Rear axle cleaning

Continuing the cleaning of the severely oil soiled rear axle.

At first, according to the advice from my friend, I attached the tape on the opening of the brake pipes to prevent the intrusion of small insects.


After that I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned … the severely oil soiled rear axles.






My plan for this day was to start the painting, but I couldn’t reach to it.
And far from the replacement of the oil seal and bearing that were main topics of this repair.

Repair of the car that had been left for a long time took long time always because unexpected problems were found as usual. ☺︎


It seemed that the rear hub bearing had backlash.  I decided to replace them to be free from worry of troubles.


I also ordered new wheel nuts together although still it would take long lead time to use these wheel nuts for the shakedown of my “onboro ALFA”.

I was considering how I could remove the hub bearing from the axle shaft.


(My original blog was written on 21st and 27th Jun 2008)
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