"Inside-out" seal

[Ed Landstrom]

Thanks. I've printed out the list of cross-matches and next time I go to town, I'll make the rounds of the bearing and truck-parts shops that couldn't find a replacement. Maybe one of them will be able to track down one of those numbers.

Apart from the difficulty of assembling the parts with a conventional seal, the other problem is that the shaft where the original seal is pressed on isn't finished to a standard that would allow the lip to seal against it. It could be mounted in a lathe and polished, but the shaft assembly is so far out of balance that the biggest part of the job would be fabricating and attaching a counterweight to allow it to be turned. Some people would do it free-hand with a belt sander, but I'm not that brave.