I posted that discussion on specboxster as well but since I frequent both boards and there has been a lot of interest on the IMSR procedure on this board as well I felt I might get some good answers in here. So here goes my issue:
I've undertaken the IMSR procedure and so far so good.
Got the old Bearing out:
Drove the new bearing in:
And got stuck on getting the snap ring:
How do you compress it to get it into the existing groove in the shaft?
O'reilly had no tool to help and advised to just carefully drive it in using a screwdriver. Is that the best way?
I was expecting a snap ring along the line of the one described on the cheetahonline write-up:
Any suggestions welcome!
Mike