Full Floater Bearing Lubrication

[Build-It-Break-it]

I'm using the speedway engineering floater.

[gerno]

I tried running mine without the inner seals and ended up puking gear oil all over the inside of the rear brake disks . Definitely recommend option 1 based on my experience

[Goosesdad]

Thanks guys. Tend to agree. Interesting that Baer is recommending option 2.
I have a Currie rear end and they ship it with the axle seals already installed...which is very cool. However, I'm going to powder coat the housing so they have to come out. Getting those babies out is like pulling teeth. Supposedly there is a special tool but nobody seems to know where to get one. There is an inner retaining lip in the axle tube that prevents hammering them out.
I'm going to run it past Baer one more time as well. But I like the idea of packing the bearings .

Thanks again for the advice...appreciated.

[WOLF1732]

If you have a speedway engineering floater you need to go with option 1
if you have a oil pump in the floater like some NASCAR rears and you can provide positive lubrication to the bearing sets go with option #2.
As a side note make sure you use a solid bearing spacer to lock the bearing pre-load.
In alum hubs this a must you "might" get away with not doing it on steel hubs.

[GEARBOXGARAGE]

I decided to go with option 3, sealed C7 hub on a SpeedTech full floater built by Dutchman. There's an inner and outer axle seal in each tube to keep fluids from leaving the center.

[rixtrix1]

Originally Posted by WOLF1732

If you have a speedway engineering floater you need to go with option 1
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As a side note make sure you use a solid bearing spacer to lock the bearing pre-load.
In alum hubs this a must you "might" get away with not doing it on steel hubs.

X2 on the bearing spacers! Well worth the $120 or so as the bearings will run extremely cooler with much less drag. I've seen 80-100F cooler with spacers on an oval track car; difference in drag can be measured with a inch/pound torque wrench much like checking pinion preload. This was on several Speedway Motors full floaters, but I doubt if there was much difference from a Speedway Engrg one. All had Winters steel hubs.