Hi Frank,
This is definitely a snap ring inside the bearing that I'm referring to. On the old one I can feel where there is the slightest lip on it and so apparently by pushing the bearing on the shaft a bit too aggressively, the shaft pushed against the snap ring and subsequently pushed the one end out of the groove.
Here it is....in the pic it appears the end of the snap ring is definitely sticking out, but it really isn't being that the right side goes farther than what is being seen - goes all the way to the edge of the key slot. With probably 95% or more of the ring totally unaffected, I'm thinking there is probably no issue here (?) I still have my old bearing but sort of hate to put it back on. I've never had any problems before with any part of a bearing pushing out the way this ring did.
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