Originally Posted by onespeedbiker

What you did is excatly what I meant by bottoming out; in other words with the bike right side up install the front wheel by placing the axle in the dropouts and let the fork seat itself so the axles are flush up against the top of the dropouts. In other words, after you have placed the axles at the end of the fork drop outs, let the fork drop down on the axle until it stops or bottoms out.