question for those that have repacked their wheel bearings

[warmonger]

Interesting, I am glad you pointed that out. My MM instructions didn't show it and in all honesty, I figured it was part of the fixed cam assembly. Since I am tearing my truck down tomorrow, I will investigate it. If what you guys are saying is true, I will need to get that washer back on my truck.

Originally posted by OffroadX
War,

I posted a diagram of the factory hub assembly in the "Important information for..." thread. You can see the splined washer in question there.

Brent

[warmonger]

Today I had to tear down my truck to do some necessary maintenance, so I went in and looked over the MM hub install. On the MM hubs, there is no way on earth the washer could possibly fit between the snap ring and the main hub body. On the MM hub, the snap ring sits dead up against the hub splines. That being the case, I am not worried about it.

Unfortunately I discovered another problem. Thanks to my playing in the mud and water, my left rear brake shoe retaining pin apparently either rotted and broke off since my last cleaning or something went seriously wrong and broke it off. Either way, it was missing and my rear shoe came loose, damaging the drum. There wasn't an excessive amount of mud in there, but there was some from the last Ocala trip two weeks ago. Fortunately, one of my techs had brake parts laying around and I easily replaced the missing part. The drum required machining 8/1000's off to remove the grooving from the pad and springs inside the drum.

This is the bad side of playing in the water and mud as well as putting my jet ski in the water. If you play in these types of enviroments, keep a close eye on stuff like this. My being anal paid off in this case or I wouldn't have found it until the damage was too severe to repair.

[Lance]

Sounds like a good idea to check those brake pins, for every one here....before they sabotage something...

You have potentially saved hundreds of innocent brakes!