Do new gimbal bearings not swivel

[appel1978]

I have purchase 3 different gimbal bearings thinking I'm either getting defective or cheap China brands because none of them swivel (as a gimbal should). They spins like a bearing but it's my understanding that gimble bearings are suppose to swivel, pivot, articulate, what ever you want to call it on all axis. Am I wrong on that? Am I getting bad ones? Do the new styles not do that as I know old ones did. Or is there something I'm doing wrong that I need to do to unlock them.

 

[mvn]

They are generally very stiff. You can clamp the outer race in a vise and use an alignment bar through the inner race to swivel it. Several videos on YouTube show this.

Mark

 

[tpenfield]

What @mvn said. . . The gimbal portion is very stiff and usually takes the alignment bar to have enough leverage to move/adjust the gimbal. This often throws off first time installers when they go to check the alignment or install the outdrive and the bearing is not initially aligned to the coupler