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.
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.