Changing to manual hubs.

[Citron]

I recently put manual hubs off of a hardbody on my pathfinder. I noticed that the auto hubs sealed with an oring. There is no spot for an oring on the manual hubs. Is there supposed to be a gasket to seal it? The FSM does not show anything.

 

I am thinking of cutting a gasket to keep the water out.

[PathyAndTheJets]

You're supposed to service and re grease the manual hubs every 3k miles so I think they omitted the gasket on it because they'd come off so much.

 

I'd use out the cork/rubber gasket material that most parts stores should have by the roll.

 

Mine don't squeeze grease out at all without the gasket, so I imagine as long as you aren't fording streams and such it'd probably be okay.