I was still able to easily turn the assembly by hand after I reinstalled the nut (a new one) that holds on the yoke....it did not appear to have any more or less resistance than it did with the previous yoke installed.....it seemed to turn smoothly/freely....not stiff or binding.....from what I could tell when I put in the yoke it just slides in place and reaches a limit to how far it can go....

Think it will be ok?? I wasn't aware its such a precise science to install the yoke....

Its been driven about 50-60 miles since finishing the job and seems to be running quiet and smooth.....should I be paranoid or will it be ok?

I only went to 80ft/lbs or so on tightening the nut.....I saw in the "setting the load" thread that it could even be much higher than that to attain the proper bearing load.

Hopefully I am lucky.

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