You are goin to have a hard time keeping the people who care off your back with them

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it also comes down to what you want to do with her

And what size tyres you plan on running. You can comfortably run 34's on beefed up WT diffs and a stretch 35's depending on the terrain and driving style.

this being very true but we have big issues with wheel bearings down here on anything over a 31

I truely believe that is because of your terrain, Lots of mud.

the more contaminent you push on the face of your seals, the more contaminents make it past and into the bearing. A 1 micron peice of dirt is enough to cause a bearing failure (a human hair is 6 microns wide).

weaves

with the sierra rear wheel bearing set up the oil seal does nothing to protect the bearing itself, so it comes down to the seal on the bearing and unfortunatly you have no options there.

A) How often is "often" every 3-6 months in my old zook, i am about to put the first set in my coily, they are better i am led to beleve

B) When you rebuild them are you setting bearing preload by feel or by torque wrench? I found this makes a huge difference in how often they come loose. Torque wrench more than tripled my rebuild times. The procedure for using a torque wrench is in the FSM but it's not widely followed. i have always done them buy hand.. however i will look in2 this

C) What is the condition of the seal surfaces on your spindles? Are they at all pitted? Are you changing the hub seal every time you do your bearings? always checked this.. yep perfect and yep replaced

D) Are you sure you aren't also getting water in around the knuckle seals and/or the freewheeling hub seals, not just the hub seal? yeah i always 3bond mine back together not the crappy seals

E) Are you still running splash guards? as in scrapers? yeah

Sorry for the hijack- this is an interesting area.

Steve.