porthos0
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Been Driving Round Today Looked At My Front Driver Wheel, Tis Covered In Oil! Dont Particularly Like It So Wondered What It Could Possibly Be?
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slob
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leaky hub gasket or oil seal. bart an hour at most and around a quid or less
Take5
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Or it could be leaky brake fluid, but then you might notice that a bit sooner...
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me old axle had a knackered cylinder in n/s drum. Inside of tyre was constantly oily till I put me pikeyed 300TDi axle on
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bloke dint say inside of tyre, and if it wur the inside of the tyre most likey he'd have sed that. plus if yer brakes is leaking it would in most cases make its self known by yer brakes being even crapper.
most common reason fer oil on yer tyres is either flange gasket or oil seal.
if yer gonna go down the road of, could be's, then it could be that a doga drank some oil and ****ed over the wheel
porthos0
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Cheers For That, The Oil Appears To Be Coming From The Very Center Of The Wheel, Which Seal Would That Be Or Any Of Them?
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could be that a dog drank some oil and ****ed over the wheel
Hahahahahahahahhaahuuuuhhh
That must be the dog thats ****ing all over the road outside my house, its a discrase....Oh no, hang on, thats my land rover!!
Hahahahahahahahhaahuuuuhhh
That must be the dog thats ****ing all over the road outside my house, its a discrase....Oh no, hang on, thats my land rover!!
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FFS!
It's almost definitely the hub oil seal which means either the seal's fookd or possibly a bearing's gone and pushed it out - you need to take off the wheel, brake caliper (put the screws back in pretty quick else you'll lose any remaining hub oil), hub cap, half shaft, locking nuts, hub and bearings and replace the seal (and any necessary bearings which you might as well replace anyway as they're only a coupla quid each) - first time 2-3 hours work, after that it's about half an hour.
You can buy the whole kit from Tamar 4x4 (2 bearings, seal, locking nut) for £8. (well, you could about 2 months ago!)
It's almost definitely the hub oil seal which means either the seal's fookd or possibly a bearing's gone and pushed it out - you need to take off the wheel, brake caliper (put the screws back in pretty quick else you'll lose any remaining hub oil), hub cap, half shaft, locking nuts, hub and bearings and replace the seal (and any necessary bearings which you might as well replace anyway as they're only a coupla quid each) - first time 2-3 hours work, after that it's about half an hour.
You can buy the whole kit from Tamar 4x4 (2 bearings, seal, locking nut) for £8. (well, you could about 2 months ago!)
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I'm assuming that you still have the black rubber dust cap in the centre of the wheel? I lost one of mine last year and it made a bit of a flicky mess. There was a little oily "wetness" where it should have been, but nothing that seemed serious. I replaced the dust cap and it was fine.
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I have no reason to doubt you but on the invoice that I recieved from Land Rover it said.............
Land Rover Part No. FTC5414 Description: CAP
I did'nt think an oil seal would be placed in such a vunurable external positon but further inside the wheel assembly.
But anyway.......it matters not
Land Rover Part No. FTC5414 Description: CAP
I did'nt think an oil seal would be placed in such a vunurable external positon but further inside the wheel assembly.
But anyway.......it matters not
Oddie
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There shouldn't be any oil in the hub if the hub seal's doing its job properly and the cap should just be a dust cap. If the hub is full of oil, the seal on the inside has failed (and will probably have washed some of the grease out of the hub)
