Might be more than just pressing them right.
Might be your bearings aren't correct to start with.

Did you compare each set side by side new and old? I wonder if a new set is taller/thicker than one of the old, or perhaps both are?

You can probably check this after the fact from the numbers and the assembled bearing specs in the catalog.
http://www.timken.com/en-us/products/pages/catalogs.aspx

Grigg


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