Had a full day, just about, fettling bits .. Both rear wheel bearings and hubs taken off, checked, cleaned, waterproof grease added and all nicely tightened and working fine. Greased all UJ's and prop shafts, jeez it's nice not to have to check the feckin donut every time now!!
So, TC came round, chewing the fat over Landy **** and setting the world to rights over cuppas while I fussed about .. then we started on a front wheel bearing .. SH1 hits the fan .. TC noted they were both loose but I was going to leave them 'cos I only did them a few weeks ago .. really glad he shook the wheel and that I checked them out!
Rubber cap taken off end and immediately worried .. rust FFS! So circlip off, drive member loosened and removed and all looked OK! Outer bearing looked good, loadsa grease, lovely movement no grinding or muck in the grease, so we thought it probably just needed tightening up. Decided to take the hub off 'to see' and so glad we did. Inner bearing gummed up and barely moving, so cleaned it all up, looked inside the hub and the inner bearing race moved easily on the hub! It actually felt almost as nice a movement as a bearing!! So took it out, though to drop a Timken race in, but that's exactly what it did - dropped in! Hubs nackered. We reckon when the bearing nipped up a while ago it caused the inner race to rotate, and it's eventually loosened off enough that it has shagged the hub!
Juliet mentioned to me after Tim had brought bearings, a hub, all sorts of spares I could use as necessary, that if I remember (I obviously didn't!) that I had had to file a tiny lip off the hub last time to get the inner race in .. Now that isn't normal, I knew it but didn't twig at the time where the material for the lip had come from!
Then the rains came, so abandoned to the shed and will do more stuff tomorrow.
Big thanks to TopCat, Top Bloke .. thanks mate ..
Will also, tomorrow, check the diff fluid, 'cos rust normally means water, and water in an axle usually isn't good .. I'd hate to do the hubs and leave the diff water to work it's magic ...