Please help. 727 tail shaft will not go on!

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I have a major issue assembling a 727. I cannot get the tail shaft on. The snap ring in the tail shaft housing will not line up with the groove on the output shaft bearing. it is about .070 away. I set the total end play to .030 with selective washers behind the front clutch. The only way to get it to line up is set the end play to .100. But then the issue will be the output shaft bearing will be taking a thrust load which it's not designed to do. I thought about leaving the endplay at .030 and stacking .070 worth of tail shaft to case gaskets or just leaving the snap ring off.  It sits in a machined pocket and the snap ring just keeps it from rotating.  I have looked everywhere and never heard of this type of issue. Any suggestions? Thanks

[John_Kunkel]

Reach in the slotted hole and pry the bearing into alignment with the snap ring, you'll hear it snap into place.

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Thanks for the help but that won't work. The bearing is .100 from lining up with the snap ring. I cannot pry it that far.

[John_Kunkel]

As stated on the "other forum", if you assembled the gear train before installing the tail you assembled it wrong, the tail bearing must be secured in place before setting the gear train end play.