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Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton
the reason most will heat the ring for install is that the lengths of the axles means you need a pretty long piece of squarely cut thick walled tube to press it on.
The reason to press it off is because any little nick fron grinder, saw, drill will give you a place for the axle to fail
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How far is your press off the ground???
No tubing required. The axle drops right down between the press's cross-bucks, sandwiched by the 2 notched pillow blocks. Press from the flanged end. Done it quite a few times.