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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: suggs on August 07, 2007, 20:03:41

Title: oil on inside of tyre
Post by: suggs on August 07, 2007, 20:03:41

got a leak, thick black oil runing down the inside of a tyre. break disk covered in it and getting a puddle on the floor when left..


ive checked the axle oil level and seems to be full, also checked the break fluid also full. im thinking its an oil seal on the bearings and its greese leaking when getting hot and not oil..

the hub dosent seem to get hot when driving, and its been slowly leaking for about a week..
what do you think


cheers

Title: oil on inside of tyre
Post by: bilge rat on August 07, 2007, 20:09:57

i had a similar thing but it didnt get as far as the tyre, most of it went on the inner brake pad causing a steering pull. that was the inner brg seal, ..alan.....

Title: oil on inside of tyre
Post by: suggs on August 07, 2007, 20:42:35

also forgot to say its the back wheel passenger side

Title: oil on inside of tyre
Post by: POTASH on August 07, 2007, 21:04:16

i had the same thing,it was a bearing and seal :cry:

Title: oil on inside of tyre
Post by: meader on August 07, 2007, 21:46:23

i also had the same thing .  seals were brand new it turned out to be the stub axel. inside there is a very small seal not sure if you can buy the seal i just bought the whole stub axel not cheep so look if you can buy the seal and that will solve the problem

Title: oil on inside of tyre
Post by: freeagent on August 08, 2007, 21:57:00

check your axle breather... mine got blocked and caused the rear hub seals to leak... but then I ran without the stubb axle seals in place so as to partially flood the bearings with axle oil..

Title: oil on inside of tyre
Post by: Ja1983 on August 08, 2007, 23:19:19

worth pulling the hub off and checking the brake cylinder first tho!

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