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Install New Seals and Bearings
1. Make sure all parts are clean prior to installing bear-
ings and seals.
2. Install inner seals onto both ends of the roller shaft
(if previously installed).
3. Press both bearing cups into the roller. Make sure
narrow end of taper faces inside of the roller.
4. Keep roller level and secured roller in a vise.
5. If assembling a full roller, fill the inside of roller tube
with 6 oz. of SAE 90 oil.
6. Pack both bearing cones with No. 2 general pur-
pose lithium base grease.
7. Install a bearing cone into the bearing cup at each
end of the roller shaft. Then install shim washer if it was
previously installed.
8. Install outer seal onto each end of the roller shaft.
Make sure hard surface of seal faces out.
9. Slide the roller shaft through the roller.
10. Install remaining adjustment nut and tighten it to
seat both bearings. Roller should be rotated to seat both
bearings.
11. Back off both adjustment nuts to allow the roller to
spin freely. Tighten both adjustment nuts again to a max-
imum of 5 in–lb (5.8 kg–cm) rolling torque with no bear-
ing end play.
12. Grease both bearings (see Greasing Bearings,
Bushings, and Pivot Points ).
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