Pretty grungy pre-clean pic of the empty axle housing with everything removed. You can see kind of a ring where the housing diameter narrows - that's where the retainer seats. What's to deflect? Can't be any type of gasket - why would you want to completely isolate the bearing from any oiling? All it would get then would be what is spun off of the axle as the truck's in motion.


http://s456.photobucket.com/user/blastenpene/media/46%20Chev/Axle%20end.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

Last edited by David Bush; 01/03/2016 3:34 AM.