TJ Dana 44 rear axle seal leak driving me crazy

[dodj]

You don't need new bearings to change a seal if you have the tools and know-how to get the existing bearings off without damaging them. Most don't so it is easier to just break them off and install new ones. I can get them off without hurting them. Takes 3 times as long so I don't. The only caveat to that is I would if I just installed them and found a reason they had to come back off.

Well....ya. But that kind of proves what I was meaning. MOST of us have to go to the expense of new bearings when you only want to change the relatively cheap seal.