rear axle bearing/seal replacement

[SenorNoob]

I was under the impression that the 2.5in was for the 10in brakes...

 

[youngbuckwithapickuptruck]

is this axle-shaft-hub in need of replacement? i cant see a visual drop down but i can clearly feel a lip with my fingernail, calipers have a hairline gap when i move them over to the 'journal' surface. there is also clearly some pitting.
*EDIT*
just pulled other shaft and its a world of difference: no pitting, no 'lip' on 'journal'

 

[Curious Hound]

Journal is bad. That will eat up your bearing like the one in my picture above. New shaft needed.

Nothing rides where your calipers are. The seal rides out closer to the flange and that area looks good.

You can move the bearing and seal placement in the tube so that the bearung isn't completely riding on the bad part of the journal. But I don't think you can miss it completely. That shaft, with a new bearing may last a few months. But you need to save up $ and order a new one soon.

Damaged bearing area in red. Seal has been riding where the green arrow points.

 

[youngbuckwithapickuptruck]

any tips for getting the bearing to go straight back into the axle? it keeps going in slightly crooked and then jamming up. i am using a mallet and a bearing press kit from autozone

also the old bearing was surrounded in these flat shards of metal. is that an indication of any specific type of wear?

its going in straight but its not going in all the way, hammering the shit out of it and alumjnum tool is just getting g destroyed instead