Your lucky that you didn't lose the entire drum and wheel. singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Nope the cotter key was there and no nut , It had to have broken and spit it out ? --- Mark Sawyer wrote: > Do you mean the nut was there but no cotter key??? > > singlecabboy wrote: I had > a leaking rear axle seal at Eureka Springs this > past month . Thank goodness I had trailered it or we > would have been putting a new seal in on Sat. nuight > . > I trailered the truck home and several daze later > Bob > and I fixed the seal .When we took the wheel off we > found that there was a cotter key on the axtle > ...........but no axtle nut . This was on the > drivers > side . It didn't leak at all till the Sat. morning > of > the show . I don't see anyway for anyone to not put > the nut on and put a cotter key on ? I'd say I > dodged > a large bullet this time .... Anyway the zone is on > the road again and life is good and ready for the > trip > to Rusty Wallis on Friday > > > > Paul Smith > > www.23window.com/thezone > > H.B.B > T.C.B > Transporters at the Point 4 > > > > > > > > Paul Smith www.23window.com/thezone T.C.B. H.B.B.