Mike Savoie 67 Z

[juliosz]

Originally Posted by 169indy

Here is What I used:
https://www.ss396.com/camaro/FBK-678.html

The Bearing is encapsulated into the Lower Bearing Housing, I never thought about extracting the Bearing ONLY and re encapsulating it into the housing - If that is even possible. Credit Darrels preservation for turning me onto this option.

I just finished Restoration of my 1968 Z Column

That's exactly what I did. I incorrectly called the lower bearing housing "plastic end piece". I pressed the old bearing out of the lower bearing housing, using a brake cylinder hone I opened it up for the larger OD of the new bearing then pressed the new bearing in. Based on pics of your new bearing housing, it looks identical to mine so thinking Darrels, SS396 and HB City all doing the same as I did only they are likely more efficient at opening up the lower bearing housing to accept the new bearing than I am using the hone. Here's the completed column. I saved the original paint on the interior side of the column. buffed it with some 15 year old Einszett and it came out nice.