I installed the seal with the long rubber lip pointed out away from the rotor, as most suggested. Here is the finished product. Hopefully I can get my calipers on this weekend, get the brakes bled, front end aligned and finally get this car back on the road. Its been down since early June
Here is a pic of the finished product. These are the 73 and later rotors with the larger diameter bearings. I went with the 11" because I could not find the "pin style" caliper mounting brackets for 11.75 inch anywhere.
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Its a 1970. My original intention was to go with the 73 and later spindle/steering knuckle so I could use a 11.75" rotor (my understanding is the 11.75" came out in 76). The problem I ran into was I wanted to keep my pin style calipers but couldn't find the larger caliper mounting brackets. So in the end I stayed with 11" rotors. You are correct though...….when you go to that 73 and later spindle, the rotor geometry bearing/seal area is a bit different than my original 70 rotors. The bearing seem to sit down further in the rotor, plus the long lip on the seal is all rubber, not rubber/steel. Was quite the learning experience but it all worked out in the end.
I’m looking for grease. What kind of bearing grease do you use? I see it is green in color, in your photo. My old grease on the bearings is brown. NAPA has brown wheel bearing/chassis grease. Wondering what you guys use. I’ve seen red colored grease used too.
Now I know why it’s green..
No real reason to fill the cavity. There's nothing going on in there that need greased.
I realize I'm about a year late to this topic, but I just removed the inner wheel seals from my '70 Charger and I can confirm the narrow part was facing outward, when looking down at the inside of the rotor. So to install new seals, the wider diameter part goes in first.
