The present disclosure provides a method of installing a bearing and hub in a steering knuckle. The method provides fitting an outer race into the knuckle with an interference fit, fitting first rolling elements between first raceways such that they seat along the first raceways, ascertaining an axial position of an initially separate inner race that will place the bearing in a predetermined condition of preload when the initially separate inner race is fitted over the hub with an interference fit and against the abutment face, installing the initially separate inner race on the hub with an interference fit and against an abutment face in the positioned ascertained, and capturing the initially separate inner race against the abutment face and in abutment on the hub to insure that it retains the position ascertained and that the bearing operates in preload.