1919 Chandler Rear wheel hubs felt vs rubber seal

[erichill]

I am slowly rebuilding a 1919 Chandler that my father tore apart years ago, so everything has been a slow puzzle to solve. This is a 3/4 floating rear end so no seals or bearing in the axle housing at the ends. I am assuming a felt or rubber seal goes in the indentation behind the bearing and that there must be a metal washer so the ball bearings are not in contact with the seal? In the parts i have located on old rubber seal and one old felt seal that fit. And only one flat washer that seems to fit.  

Question is felt or rubber, and am I correct in thought that some sort of metal spacer needs to be in between seal and bearing.

While on this subject should I use 90 weight gear oil in the reared or something  thicker?  Manual just says heavy oil, and as you can imagine not much info out their on Chandlers from the  teens. 

[dibarlaw]

Your assumption about the felt seal and steel washer is correct. The other gasket is between the axle hub assembly and the face of the wheel keeping the grease in the chamber provided. My 1925 Buick Master axle is similar that all that is mentioned is the rear axle lubricant to be Steam Cylinder oil. Known as 600W in many references. Modern 90 Wt. Gear oil may be much too light. I am sure others will chime in here.

 I packed the double row ball bearing with regular HP Bearing grease. Originally noteing "soft cup grease".  My rear hubs have a brass pipe plug where the soft cup grease was to be filled once a season. Many have replaced these with a modern Zerk or Alemite High Pressure grease Fitting.

[29 Chandler]

Eric I too use 600w in the rear axel on my Chandler, same for the transmission.

Thanks for sharing the pictures, I'll use them as a reference when I get into the rear wheel bearings.

[erichill]

3 hours ago, dibarlaw said:

The other gasket is between the axle hub assembly and the face of the wheel keeping the grease in the chamber provided

Thanks for responding. Though i am not sure what you mean by the sentence above. I hate that I am ignorant ion this stuff. This is the first prewar car I have worked on beside Ford Model A bit for that there are so many resources available fro help.  You mentieond the year and type of car so i will google and see if I can come up with any sort of diagram. Any clarification on this you can provide is appreciated.

Eric

[erichill]

Thanks both of you for the info on the 600w oil. I do use this in my Model A so good to know I have a source for it. Filling the differential wont be cheap. haha

[dibarlaw]

 Pulling the wheels from my 1925 Master Buick

The hub with the cap is also removed with the axle shaft there is a gasket between the 6 bolt hub and the metal wheel hub where the spokes are. Note... Zerk grease fitting on the hub.

[Fordy]

My Hupp originally had felt. I turned up some adaptors to take the modern type as a direct replacement- so far no issues