Rear axle overhaul (Left side) #1

There were lots of things I had to do and I restarted the repair of the rear axle on the left side. It was the continuation of the repair of the rear axle on the right side I did it last year. The main issues were the replacement of the hub bearing, oil seal and one damaged hub bolt.

First of all the brake rotor was removed. (The overhauled caliper was not installed yet.)

I checked the condition after removal, and found that the inside of the rotor and hub was dirty with oil.

It seemed that the oil seal needed to be replaced as I thought.

Disconnecting the parking brake cable, removing the 4 nuts fixing the hub on the rear axle housing,

and pulling the rear axle shaft, then, the rear axle shaft could be removed easily.

The work on this day was done quickly because I already did the same on the right side before. ☺︎

(My original blog was written on 11th Jan. 2009)

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