Rear axle seals, bearings and complete brakes before and after pics

[Jay87LX]

So I had a leaky drivers side axle seal, totally soaked the pads and ebrake shoes so I figured while I was in there might as well do it all.
New axle seals
Axle bearings
ebrake shoes
Hardware
Dust sheilds
Rotors
Ceramic pads
Started out looking like this, you can see how soaked everything is with rear end fluid

Got the old bearings and seals out- they were a bear, had to heat them up a bit

New bearings and seals installed

New dust sheilds installed, axle installed, ebrake shoes and hardware

new rotors installed, ceramic pads in the calipers and places in the caliper braket

I did have one issue when it all went back together as I put the bolt that holds the track bar in backwards so it hit the axle when the suspension compress but I figured it out and all is well

 

[splintrcel]

I have leaky seals in the back. Should I replace the bearings or just the seals and how long did it take you to complete the job?

 

[Jay87LX]

I would do the bearings as well because you are in there anyways and secondly, many times the seals are leaking because the bearings are worn which prevents the axle from staying centered.
As far as time it took me 7 hours total work time but I did the brakes and had a rain delay plus a few other distractions like having to heat up the axle to help get the bearing out, the bearings alone are only a few hours

 

[Big White]

New dust shields because they come as an assembly w/ all the ebrake hardware? I had to do that on my Durango too. A slide hammer would not pull the bearings out without heat?

 

[Jay87LX]

I had to buy the dust sheilds separately at $69.95 at Autozone but they are available at RockAuto as well as Summit for less than half that. One of mine was completely rusted and rotting away, they come in pairs.
I banged away for 30 minutes with the slide hammer with no luck, had to put some heat to it, not cherry red hot, just a little bit.

 

[splintrcel]

This sounds like I am gonna be putting it off until I recover from my stupidity with the intake manifold gasket I managed to install incorrectly cuz I am a moron and didn't happen to notice a critical detail on which gasket goes on which side based on the correct orientation of the person which is not looking at the front of the engine, but sitting in the vehicle.