Bonrath strut bearing - needs to be pressed?

[dswalterwi at gmail.com (Don Walter)]

I'm not sure I follow you.  I did not have to press anything into anything.

On 3/25/07, Koabi Brooks <koabi@seeohdee.com> wrote:
>
> Hopefully someone has experience with this...
>
> As far as I can tell I need to press this bearing assembly together, but
> I've been horrible wrong many times before.  The first picture shows the
> bearing inside the bushing - I pressed that in there with a hand vice
> (sorry about the size, I somehow messed up gallery 2 resize):
>
> http://koabi.lazyslacker.com/photos/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=8011&g2_serialNumber=1.jpg
>
> The bushing that is around the bearing fit into the housing before I
> pressed the bearing into it.  The bushing expanded somewhat and now I
> cannot get the bushing/bearing all the way up into the housing:
>
> http://koabi.lazyslacker.com/photos/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=8008&g2_serialNumber=1.jpg
>
> I did try the hand vice for this too, but to no avail.
>
>
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