TR4/4A Leaking ft hub seals

I did a mechanical restoration of my fathers TR and it has turned out awesome to drive with one issue. The brakes have not been performing as I expected. The whole brake system has been replaced from lines, hoses, master and slave cylinders (calipers and wheel cyls). Usually when driving at speed you can stand this car on its nose when applying the brakes and lock up the wheels. I could not figure out the performance issue and saturday I discovered that the inboard brake pads on both ft calipers were soaked in liquefied wheel bearing grease. I had installed a trimmed version of the felt seals when I initially installed the hubs and rotors and found the grease leaked down the backing plate so I replaced them with the non trimmed felt seals only now finding that they are also leaking, only the rotor has been coated and no grease has reached the inside of the wheels as yet.

My question to you all is have you seen or used a rubber lip seal in place of the felt oe type felt seals? The grease I am using is a typical modern high temp red disc bearing grease.

IMO you are using too much grease. The felt is only supposed to be a dust seal, it doesn't hold back grease (and shouldn't need to). The other possibility is that you have the bearings too tight and the grease is melting from the heat.

RockAuto lists Timken 480991 and National 223822 seals at a reasonable price.
https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog...+l4,1491602,brake+&+wheel+hub,wheel+seal,1860

I may have too much grease installed into the hub. I am using the reinforced spindle kit with the shims and spacer installed so there is less room for grease to expand and occupy.

I am looking into the seal alternatives and so far the ID of the seals appears wrong. I'm measuring the ID as 1.325" or 35mm with a depth of 0.25" or 6mm depth. I currently don't have a loose ft wheel hub handy to measure the seal OD.

Does anyone have a hub out to measure the seal OD?

Thanks

+1...you're using too much grease.

I ordered a set of the felt seals and am going to inspect and clean the bearings, reduce the volume of grease and install the felt seals. It is easier to do this than look for a seal that might be difficult to find when another is needed.

FYI the dimensions I have are 53MM OD - 35MM ID - 5MM Depth.

Looking through SKF and National catalogs there are seals that are close with imperial dimensions but the OD is the one dimension that seems difficult to find.