Is the knuckle buggered?

Working on a wheel bearing replacement, and when starting the bearing, it cocked to one side and was stuck. It left these marks on the inner bearing surface.

Can the bearing still be pressed in (doubly checking for straightness). I am using a Harbor freight 12 ton press and have the knuckle off of the car.

I had done the other side and had no trouble taking the bearing out and replacing it. This side was incredibly hard to remove and has not gone well going in (as you can see).

https://imgur.com/gallery/tVG86hJ

You'll be fine . Take the new bearing and place it in the freezer for an hour or two.
Take some 400 grit sand paper and just dress up the area where the marks are.
A little bit of grease in that area andi it should go together easier.

Yep, sand the burr off and make sure it’s straight next round

Freeze the bearing, or the knuckle?

Cheers, I had frozen the bearing to start and had been heating the knuckle to get the old one out, and used a coating of grease.

I'll clean up that area and try again after the bearing is cold again.

Rrgrassi, you freeze the bearing, which makes it shrink because of thermal expansion (or retraction? In this case) the dimensions of the bearing become smaller and therefore easier to press into the knuckle.

Ok, makes sense. I thought you would freeze the knuckle to make it a hair smaller so the bearing could be I stalled a bit easier.

Nope other way around, freeze the bearing to make it smaller and heating the knuckle with make it slightly larger, and use the grease ..... it will help.

Update:

I sanded the edges down from the crooked early attempts with the bearing with 400grit and followed it with a scotch Brite pad and made sure the surface was clean again.

Then a thin coat of Moly grease, and back on the press. I first positioned everything straight, but noticed the side that got marked up before was tilting down, so I started over and repositioned the press to only press on the side that had not been messed up before.

The bearing shimmied a little bit, but then started to be straight, I moved it all back to center and it pressed in like normal and didn't put up a fight, success! Now don't forget that snap ring before you press the hub on, ask me how I know...

http://imgur.com/gallery/RNQbHHb

Of note, I had always been using grease and freezing the bearing and it's 90+deg F here so the hub is nice and warm (could do more with the oven but so far between here and there that it's not worth it. Although I could have put the press in the kitchen....)

Nice job!