Swivel Filled With Grease - Removing Excess

Usual fix is to clean, fill with a build-up primer, paint, wipe greasy rag over every now and again

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I cleaned mine with emery, and painted with metal care paint from aldi. (When I last did the kingpins)
Took over a week to dry hard mind, in the summer :ohmy: . Probably an epoxy paint would be better.

Anyway:





The paint is wearing off a bit now though, but lasted well.

in my 4 and a bit years of ownership i always ran greased swivels. i always told my mechanic not to grease them as is common knowlege in the forums but he did it anyway. Never had a problem with it, and the idea of dry seals is strange in my eyes, but in any case i regularly check them to see and remove any excessive build up of grease and dirt just to be sure. have no rust at all, but then again we dont have snow and salt on the roads over here.

I believe that the swivels were painted when new but not very well. So painting seems logical.

They are merely dust seals on the Jimny and are not designed to be waterproof, so grease on the swivels will help to keep water out but will also allow grit to stick to the seals and shred them.

Kirkynut

I cleaned my swivels thoroughly from rust and then painted them with a primer used for coating boats' "underwaterbody" (given to me by a friend who paints cars). The primer took one day to dry.
The swivel seals wore the primer off after approx 1000 km. I cleaned the swivels again, and this time I painted them with a paint used for brake calipers (which can endure super high temperatures). That paint wore off after approx 500 km.

So, I suppose, neither of them could withstand the friction between the swivels and the swivel seals.
Now I am investigating what other kind of paint can withstand regular friction.


However, now I have another question - can the swivel hub seals be replaced without disassembling the entire wheel hub? In other words, can a swivel hub seal simply be unbolted, surface cleaned and new seal bolted on, no other fiddling on the wheel assembly required?

Or do I have to do a similar level of disassembling as when changing the swivel (kingpin) bearings? If I do, it would then be better to combine swivel seals and kingpin bearings change into one work, wouldn't it?

Suzuki recommend cutting the rubber to get it on, and then fitting with the cut at the top if you can't be bothered with all the dismantling (or want to charge 3 hours labour and do it in 15 minutes