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Message: [QUOTE="Charles, post: 44076, member: 103"] I don't know what you're doing.... but it ISN'T how crush sleeves work on the rest of planet earth... What the guy is describing is EXACTLY how they act for everyone else. A new crush sleeve is VERY hard to get to start down. Once it starts, then it is as you describe. Now if you reuse one.... obviously you don't have this issue, and in a pinch, that can be done, although often times this just leads to the crush sleeve "floating" around and not doing a damn thing because the new bearings seat in the races and acheive pre-load before the sleeve does anything. Leaving the pre-load to fall off within a relatively short number of miles. For the rest of the world.... the pipe wrench and 3/4 drive are the ticket. I usually take a pipe wrench with a pipe over the handle and run it down so the pipe digs into the ground under the pinion, then hold on to the leafspring or frame with my arms and use BOTH legs to legpress a 3/4" breaker bar until the crush sleeve starts down. Then I continue with one leg a little at a time, checking back and forth until the preload is acheived. This whole nonsense like crush sleeves are easy to crush is just ridiculous. And using an impact? Equally ridiculous. To the OP. No you're not crazy. And it sounds like you're right on track. [/QUOTE]

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