we used to just flip the bearing in the sleeve and just replace the bearing, but now there are so many different manufactures of gimbal bearings, I prefer to replace the whole thing as an assembly. I can't remember when they stopped using them, but some of the earlier transom plates had a lock ring to hold the bearing in place, I knew a guy that slide hammered a gimbal bearing out without removing the ring, he screwed up that transom plate. Wipe the grease off the bearing and look to make sure yours doesn't have a ring
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