Your suggestion is a good idea as it also cleans things up.. I was a little cautious about pulling the cap off and accidently changing the preload but in hindsight I probably should have done it ...
It is back together now.. but it was something I noticed when doing the rebuild and I was...
I am using the knuckle rebuild technique were you remove the lower control arm/bearing cap then lift the knuckle off. Then take the bearing off the upper bearing cap without removing the cap.
In the videos showing this done the bearing just slid off the cap.. but on mine it was very tight.
Can...