I noticed I had an axle shaft seal leaking when I replaced all my wheel cylinders a few weeks ago.  I ordered a new seal from Kanter for $22 and replaced the leaky seal. Kanter was the only place I found that had this seal.

It’s an easy job…

After removing the wheel, there’s 2 – 9/16 bolts that hold the drum on.

Once the drum is removed, there are 4 – 9/16 nuts holding the axle in. After you remove those nuts the axle will slide right out. You should not need a puller as the axle should come out easily…

I have a regular seal puller, but I ended up just using a screw driver to remove the old seal. It come out fairly easily. I cleaned up the housing the best I could before I installed the new seal.

The new seal…

I used my slide hammer bar and a screw on tap and a hammer to peck the new seal in.

Took a total of about 30 minutes and I was done.

Tomorrow I plan to replace all of the shoes since they’ve been on there for about 5 years now and it’s getting tougher to stop… plus the left rear shoes are saturated with gear oil now.