Axle oil

[TomC]

Virtually all trucks have oil bearings on the front axle. Some of the older buses had an inner seal to keep the gear oil out of the outer ends of the rear axle to run grease on the bearings. When I bought my bus, I had all bearings and seals on the axles changed to oil. Being an old truck driver, I knew what neglect on greased bearings can do.
The only greased bearings I see now are on some trailers-and that's using synthetic grease. Good Luck, TomC

[chessie4905]

Use a good synthetic grease on bearings and you don't need to worry about bearing neglect. When oil seals leak, they coat everything, including contaminating brake lining and increase stopping distance, especially on two axle coaches. A major mess to clean up everything from all the oil. Btdt too often in past on vehicles. Some love oil seals. I don't.

[Jim Eh.]

The hub caps you linked look like standard trailer axle caps (I could be wrong, my eye sight isn't as good anymore) make sure you have the correct one. I highly doubt you will find the one you need on Ebay. I am not sure they sell enough of those one for a company for flog them.

www.stemco.com/f/qbin/Hub_Caps_Literature.pdf  for correct cap selection.

[Scott & Heather]

Ditto what Jim said. Those aren't the right stemco covers you have on there


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