Part number: RTC3258 (modified by Series Magic)
Price is for one seal.
Our RTC3258 split seal is a modified high quality oil seal that can be installed without having to detach the swivel hub assembly.
Our split seal can save you hours of disassembly and reassembly work.
Here’s the illustrated installation guide, which explains when it’s appropriate to use a split seal and when it’s not, depending on the condition of the swivel housing.
If all you need to do is replace the seal, you can use our split seal.
Replacing the swivel seals on a Series the usual way is a big job—you have to detach the whole swivel hub assembly just to replace a seal.
Newly installed seals typically weep oil immediately, because most new seals are a poor fit on the swivel sphere.
We don’t recommend filling swivel housings with grease to slow leakage past old or poor quality seals. Oil is the lubricant specified by Land Rover, for good reason.
The solution is not grease: it’s seals that actually work and that are easy to install.
High quality swivel seals, modified by our workshop for easy installation as a split seal.
These seals are so good they can accommodate shallow rust-pitting of the spherical sealing surface with negligible leakage, provided that any such pitted areas are lightly sanded with ultra-fine wet-and-dry sandpaper to restore surface smoothness.
You can install one of our modified seals without any disassembly.
Cut the old seal to remove it, prepare the spherical surface and the new seal, stretch the split seal over the swivel housing neck, fit the modified seal spring and apply RTV silicone to the split.
We've fitted these split seals in our workshop with excellent results. They don't leak, as long as they're correctly installed and the spherical sealing surface isn't deeply pitted. What you can and can't get away with in terms of pitting is explained in our illustrated installation guide, which you can download here.
Part number: RTC3258 (modified by Series Magic)
Price is for one seal.
Our RTC3258 split seal is a modified high quality oil seal that can be installed without having to detach the swivel hub assembly.
Our split seal can save you hours of disassembly and reassembly work.
Here’s the illustrated installation guide, which explains when it’s appropriate to use a split seal and when it’s not, depending on the condition of the swivel housing.
If all you need to do is replace the seal, you can use our split seal.
Replacing the swivel seals on a Series the usual way is a big job—you have to detach the whole swivel hub assembly just to replace a seal.
Newly installed seals typically weep oil immediately, because most new seals are a poor fit on the swivel sphere.
We don’t recommend filling swivel housings with grease to slow leakage past old or poor quality seals. Oil is the lubricant specified by Land Rover, for good reason.
The solution is not grease: it’s seals that actually work and that are easy to install.
High quality swivel seals, modified by our workshop for easy installation as a split seal.
These seals are so good they can accommodate shallow rust-pitting of the spherical sealing surface with negligible leakage, provided that any such pitted areas are lightly sanded with ultra-fine wet-and-dry sandpaper to restore surface smoothness.
You can install one of our modified seals without any disassembly.
Cut the old seal to remove it, prepare the spherical surface and the new seal, stretch the split seal over the swivel housing neck, fit the modified seal spring and apply RTV silicone to the split.
We've fitted these split seals in our workshop with excellent results. They don't leak, as long as they're correctly installed and the spherical sealing surface isn't deeply pitted. What you can and can't get away with in terms of pitting is explained in our illustrated installation guide, which you can download here.
