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 Posted: 12-17-2005 01:18 am
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 Mark,

thanks for your response.

Yeah...it's certainly a mystery to me. For instance, if one drove through a very deep puddle, water could enter the gap between the bearing retaining plate and the axle. It would then become trapped in the recess of the retaining plate. It could also contaminate the bearings.

Also, there is no gasket between the axle flange and the brake backing plate?

All I know is that when I put my five speed rear end in I'm gonna lather it all up with silastic to seal what I can. I'll be using spacers to take the place of the backing plate since I'll be switching to disk brakes. I'll cut new paper gaskets since Delta no longer stocks the OE ones. Any other advice?

Do these bearings fail frequently? Has anyone found a completely sealed bearing substitute?

Thanks,

Norm Vandal