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it did not go well at all today.

Try as I might, I couldn't get the stud to press back into bearing evenly. I tried putting the cover on to pull the whole thing into place, but every time I did so, the stud would pop back out. I pulled the bearing again and tried to get the pelican stud into the factory cover and realized that it was never going to work in the motor -- the fit was just too tight and it was always going to overcome the pressfit of the stud into the bearing.

I reverted to the OEM stud, which the cover fits onto just fine... only problem is that I think I must've inadvertently tossed the M8 1.0mm thread nut that fits onto the smaller OEM stud.

Anyone know where I can get another one of these nuts? The hardware stores don't have anything with that fine of thread. Anyone think it's not worth it to reuse the OEM bearing retainer stud? Mine seems fine.