Thanks guys! I appreciate the advice and looking forward to some decent weather again next weekend to finish this project up.
Follow up:
As a precaution, I ordered some spare bearings/races and pulled this wheel again. New bearing was still a tight fit to get past the lip of the spindle. I polished the offending area of the spindle with some medium and fine emery cloth, but kept it very light. After replacing the races and installing freshly hand packed bearings and rear seal, it seated fairly easily with just a small push needed to get past the hang up. Prior to this, the rear bearing was so tight trying to remove that it pulled the grease seal from the hub. I'll call this a success.
Pulled the remaining drums and no bearing issues found (and found 1 more failed seal from greasing via EZLube. As with the other failed seal, no contamination of the brakes as I haven't moved the rig and its been fairly cold. Hand packing will be the only way I'll do this going forward. Also finished up my wet bolt kit install while the wheels were off.
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