I replaced my bearing today and thought I'd offer up my thoughts.
The whole process took me less than an hour and the hardest part was putting the snap ring back in only because my pliers broke.


I did NOT have to raise the engine. I used a large breaker bar with a 15/16 socket. I just moved the fan blades to accommodate it.
Buy a strap wrench. I bought mine off Amazon.
Buy a little torch. I discovered it was a must to melt the lock tight. I tried loosening the bolt without heat and no.
I have a 12-ton press I bought from Harbor Freight last year to replace bushings on my Supra. I used that to push the old bearing out and press the new one in. That took five minutes maybe. I almost tried the oven/freezer trick like on the youtube video just to see if I could make it work but didn't want to take that much time. I used a Nachi bearing.
Other than the 55's clickity clack noise on first cold start up the engine bay is nice and quiet now. Will include a couple of very short videos of before and after sounds shortly.

 

 

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