What style of bearing and seal are in my rear Dana 44 with drum brakes?

[Eruntalon]

Hello,

I'm wanting to know what style of bearings and seals are normally fitted to a Manual 2002 Jeep TJ with a Dana 44 rear axle. I'm replacing the drum and brake assembly on mine and haven't torn it down yet, and wanted to do the bearings and seals as well and need to order the correct parts. I'm not replacing the shafts or touching the differential. The differential originally had 3.07 ratio gears.

I know that rear Dana 35s have a C clip assembly in the differential and that the outer bearing and seal are pushed directly into the axle tube, but with rear Dana 44's with drum brakes do the bearings and seals push into the tube or do they normally get pressed over the axle shaft along with a backing plate and a shim?

The only installation tutorials I can find on Youtube are examples with Dana 44s with rear disc brakes or Dana 35s with drum brakes, but not Dana 44s with drum brakes?

[Fishframe]

I think SET10.

Pressed on, should be heaps of YouTube tutorials if you search.

Mine were replaced recently but I had a shop do them. I think we used Timken brand.

I had an axle seal leak and needed it fixed ASAP.

My understanding is the seals are good but don’t like being reused once removed. Make sure you get it right first go. The shop that did mine didn’t, and had to redo with new seals. They got it right the second time.

[Jonny Jeep]

The same seal and Set 10 bearings are used regardless of whether a D44 has disc or drum brakes. The difference is the retaining plate for discs has a lip due to the brake backing plate being thicker. Set 10 is a bearing and a retaining ring.

The retaining plates for drums are part number 5010811AA in case you wanted to swap them too. The OEM seal number is 83503063, Timken 9912s, SKF 18731.

Make sure they go onto the shaft in the correct order, with the bearing the right way around, or you'd be needing a new retaining ring.

[Eruntalon]

Thanks everyone I understand now.