My wife said the title of the thread would put all of our minds in the gutter, I told her we were above that..... She didn't believe me.... Anyway!

I had a rear wheel seal leaking, it's replaced along with the parking shoes, grease soaked. In the Haynes or Chilton’s (whatever one I have) stated to repack the wheel bearings at re-installation, OK fine, Done… Everything is put back together nicely, fun job.

For the question: Is packing the rear wheel bearing (inner & outer) a maintenance/time item or does the axel gear lube take care of lubrication after installation? Going to do the seal on the other side “just because” so I will be doing the other side bearings anyway.

Looking at the maintenance schedule I saw nothing about it… Just curious what others are doing and when.

The other question: Repair manuals listed both Ford 10.5 Axel and Dana Axels, what’s the difference?

Pennies for thought.

Thanks

Steve

 

Yes, I believe so.... The Dana is up front The 10.5 is a Sterling

 

Bearings are lubed by the oil in the diff, the grease is just for install and gets washed out by the oil.

sounds like your manual also covers other F trucks and some of those use a Dana rear axle. Same full float design so the bearing procedure would be the similar.