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While rebuilding one of the hubs on my M35A3, I discovered that one of my CTIS hub seal retainers was bent and battered. This was likely the cause of the seal failure. This is the retainer that holds the quad o-ring seal and each hub has two. It appears that someone in the military beat on the seal retainer in an effort to drive the outer roller bearing race out of the hub and either didn't succeed, or did succeed in removing it and then re-installed the damaged retainer ring. Erik's has been the most reliable source of hub parts for the CTIS on A3s, but I now find that Erik's is out of stock on this part and I can't find any other MV parts suppliers that stock this part. It appears that there is no civilian couonterpart. Aside from having a machine shop fabricate a new ring, does anyone have any suggestions for a supplier of A3 CTIS hub seal parts?