P.S.A. check your parts every so often

[sweetk30]

so working on a friends dana 60 front and since we swapped the srw hubs on over 15 years ago this truck has sat most of the time and lucky to have prob 5k miles give or take . mostly trail riding but 1 good play day in the swamp hole of fun at a local play area . i think this is were it got the water inside the LF wheel hub .

so if your rig sits a lot or even a driver jack up the wheels and spin the tire by hand and listen for weird noises and feelings of parts play or sticking .

this truck lot drove in my shop just fine but if i was to bet it was spinning the inner bearing on the axle spindle as i have some black heat / burnt grease markings on the spindle . the bearing cleaned up in the parts washer free of old grease still wont spin its locked up . has just a tiny bit of play is all . and the race is severe rust .

if you play in water or real liquid mud check your stuff more or you could be in for a world of parts replacing money pit fun . lucky we got this before he started driving the rig like he plans to now .

few pics of parts and the guy who did this with a smile on his face the whole time .

 

[tRustyK5]

If you're doing that type of wheeling, and just park it after...you deserve parts that look like that. Rode hard, put away wet...never good.

 

[sweetk30]

long story to it but yes i told him no more water or watery mud for sure unless he plans major maint after or this will happen again .

 

[tRustyK5]

Yeah. I had a buddy that loved that kind of wheeling. He had an old Wagoneer on 40's. Every trip finished with him changing every fluid in the truck, and a dis-assemble, clean and re-grease of everything else...a little spendy but he rarely broke stuff or needed to replace stuff.

 

[onetonbb74]

I clean and repack the hubs bearings after every wheeling trip. Water always gets in there.