Greetings,
Im in the process of refreshing the IRS. When I received the car, the rear hub carrier was in really bad shape. The bearings were completely destroyed and part of the carrier was sheered off from the friction. I replaced the bearings and races but am concerned about the fitment of the oil seal as it doesn't seem to fit correctly.
I would greatly appreciate any input on the viability of this hub carrier and the oil seal. Is the damage impacting the seals fitment or am I doing something wrong?

SOLVED: The hub is indeed cooked. I suspect the spacer was not installed last time the carrier was serviced (1998 at least) and the bearing shredded itself, the oil seal, and the carrier edge it would sit in. Current plan is to grease as much as possible to run as is and replace when it's cooked again. Many thanks to Greg and Grant for the help!

Attached are pictures of the carrier as well as the oil seal ordered from parts geek. Car is a 1983 XJ6 VDP


Hub carrier with damage

Oil seal for reference
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Grab a beer, or a coffee,

Slide on into the XJS Section, one down from here, and in the Stickies at the top is a walk through by Greg on "Rebuilding the rear hubs ......". It is the tell all, warts and all.

If this link works, goodo, IT and me are luv/hate thing.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...shafts-263094/

He has another in that section for the Outer Fulcrum bearings, worth a read also, so a 2nd beer maybe.

 

From the first photo, the sides of the depression in the hub carrier that holds the oil seal do not look vertical. I think whatever happened to your axle wore away the casting. Additionally the depression does not look round, but distorted at the 8 o clock area, which is where in the second photo the oil seal is clearly not fitting properly.

If the oil seal depression is not in fact not vertical, but is cone shaped (wider at the top) and distorted, then the hub carrier is toast.
This is what the oil seal track should look like:

 

Ah it is indeed coned. If the only solution is replacement then I might as well run it unsealed till the bearings seize up from dirt. Greg, many thanks for the insight and pictures to compare!

 

Grant, thanks for the links and direction. This will definitely come in handy when I replace the hub carrier.
2 beers for the read, 12 for the job itself!

 

G'day diiid,

You might be able to put a new seal in place and secure it with a few well placed screws around the outer edge of the seal with the screw heads overlapping the seal. If you do this make sure the screw heads do not interfere with the seal runner or the axle.

Just a thought.

Cheers and good luck,
Jeff.

 

Please do not think me rude; but that is crackers, with nothing to hold the grease in that hub will fail, possibly catastrophically.
Just get one off ebay; as the driveshaft is out of the hub (which is the only hard part of the swap) swapping it over is quick and easy.

 

G'day diiid,

I have seen ball bearings with integral grease seals but didn't think that tapered bearings could have integral grease seals but out of curiosity I googled it and found this website. https://www.clarkseals.com/bearing-seals.html

There maybe something there you can use.

Cheers,
Jeff.

 

Shouldn't be hard to find a good used hub. I'd call David Boger first...