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I rebuilt my rear drive over the winter.

did a few shorter rides, 20 miles the longest. No issues.

Yesterday I rode 200 miles and after arriving home noticed (at the drain hole next to the drain plug) what looks like grease.

It felt like grease, and smelled like grease. Not gear oil.

I would think, hope, I've just over greased the wheel bearings (using the speical grease tool).

Is this where the grease would find it's way out. There was also a small amount on the other side of the wheel.

I was thinking of just pulling the wheel and cleaing up any other grease, just to try to keep it from the brake shoes.

Just double checking that this isn't caused by some other known malady.

Thanks

That drain hole is there to direct a gear oil leak over excess w/brg grease away from the shoes. An educated guess is that it is w/brg grease as you just serviced them.

Edit: Over greasing the splines will give like results.

Thanks Garnet, I did put fresh grease on the splines too as they were rebuilt.

I had a small leak before, of gear oil, and I have been keeping an eye on the hole to make sure that I had fixed that issue.

This was definately grease though. Rear brakes seamed fine though.