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Okay guys, after our little fiasco with the rear locking up on my dads old truck we bought all new Ford Motorcraft axle bearings, races and seals. Well I lubed the bearings per some of your suggestions with synthetic grease that I use to pack normal greased bearings, but now we're tearing the thing back apart again. The rear seals both came apart and started leaking oil, and upon tear down I noticed BOTH hubs could move IN and OUT about an inch. So Im going to throw out a guess that this is what caused the seals to come apart. But WHY? I dont know but Im going to speculate that it was because of the bearings being packed with grease and that caused them to tighten up before they were all the way on.