Quick wheel seal question...

so I’m pretty sure I know the answer to this but thought I’d check.

In the picture above is a trailer wheel seal, packed with grease. It’s seeping. Bad wheel seal right? My other 3 are bone dry. My abs light was on, moved and it went off. But after checking the pig tail for 12v, and testing good, I checked for wheel seal leaks. Found this. To bad this one is on the axle/side that was real close to being out of spec on the spindle. Spindle doctor came about a year and a half ago and said “looks good to me, probably got another year or two on it, no charge”...

So probably time to do the spindle this time regardless right? I mean the abs light went off, but I’m pretty sure that seal isn’t supposed to be the slightest bit wet right? Bad seal?

 

Yeah. My local shop for wheel seals don’t measure for spindle wear. TA a while back said my spindle was bad, the local spindle doctor said It is was in spec, with a little more life in it. I just replaced this seal a year and a half ago. I’m thinking the spindle is gone by now give or take and is to risky to just to seal, then have to redo it?

 

I agree. They measured the wear pattern/groove @ TA a while back. Had to fight them to put the wheels back on because they said it was out of spec. Brought it home and the spindle doctor said the wear was fine. This same wheel failed a year and a half ago. It’s on a 99’ Fontaine, kind of hard to tell mileage. Might just be coincidence

 

What makes this such a good fix compared to a regular wheel seal, if you don’t mind sharing some detail?

I think I used a stemco seal last time, don’t know about the wear ring though.