Bonrath strut bearing - needs to be pressed?

[koabi at seeohdee.com (Koabi Brooks)]

I don't see how I could do this wrong - there's only 3 real parts...
but no they did not simply slide into each other for me.  ugh

> 
> 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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