Ok - now I'm stuck again - in two steps.

Stuck Step One: Apparently the upper and lower bearing races need to be press-fit into the steering neck?

The Haynes manual describes a tool to pull them into place, which looks like this:
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mrt202 - Did you use something like this? Or, did your races just slip into place? I'm thought I had the wrong bearings because they just didn't slip into place.

Stuck Step Two - Apparently that lower race, which is press fit onto the steering neck does need to come off. The Haynes manual describes this process:


The two videos I posted earlier omitted these steps - if they had I would have been better prepared to do this or just grease up the OEM bearings. This website shows the entire job:
http://www.dansmc.com/steering_bearings.htm


Al