Like Swedish Baklava, use six-point sockets.

Looks like surface rust. I guess you already removed the goo and such.

Replacing the outer seal on the axle half shaft requires bearing seat removal.

Take the half shaft to your machinist that has the tools to pull off the bearing seat, that is, if you need to replace that seal.

To pull out the bearing seat on the axle tube, you use the most miserable tool alive. The Slide Hammer. The slide hammer must have the tines to pulling fingers, and you set it up, and slid and pound it out, and pound the replacement seat back in.

If the roller bearings got to hot, the metal will look like it has blue streak or blue coloring. The carbon-steel actually becomes blue from the heat.

Do you have the Bentley 240 service manual bible? Hayne treats it, briefly.

Did you get to kjet.org? For the green manual info?

http://www.k-jet.org/documents/greenbooks/200-series/

You now can look at the procedure in the green manual. (I presume rear wheel bearing service stuff is in there, I'd not looked yet.)

Maybe Art has some input on these 240 rear wheel bearings, also?

While I need to do these, and do not have facility to do so, it have been quite some time I'd done this.

Good luck.

Also, it may not hurt to take a gander at turbobricks on this procedure. For any gotchas or procedure improvement. The green manuals hosted, thankfully, on kjet.org should treat you completely to the procedure.

Back to what I call a pile of crap. Microsoft Word 2013 on Windows 8.1.

Rather have FrameMaker 3.

As stupid and corrupt and evil as Microsoft has ever been.

cheers,

Dud.

dud.