If you are short the money for the bearing kit, I would strongly suggest you save up your $$ until you do. Like Tim said, bearings that look ok are not always ok.

I have done 5 of these gear swaps and I don't think I have ever gotten all the bearings removed without damaging them.

Installing the ring gear without damaging the carrier bearings would be quite a challenge


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