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I will say that the damn center bearing is a pain in the ass without a press.
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Yeah, I do have a press, but don't have the correct plates to slip under the bearing, so it's still a little tricky. I just put the current bearing on there a couple summers ago, but the rubber is already cracked and falling apart. Presumably because it's been sitting outside in the sun with no bed floor in it ever since.
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It works very well as long as your shaft doesn’t need balanced
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This is my main concern. Cutting a pipe and welding it back together isn't brain surgery, but I'm concerned it's already out of balance since the guy at North Manufacturing didn't index the two halves back together correctly.
Every shaft I have ever seen has the yokes clocked 90 degrees out of phase from each other to cancel vibration. When I got it back from that yahoo, the two halves were off a couple of splines, making the yokes more like 40 degrees off. And the original weight hadn't been touched. So I'm fairly confident its already out of balance and I got screwed on that deal.