Illustrator file not filling InDesign frame

I have a Table of Contents graphic created for a news letter in Illustrator. The graphic is 1.2624" wide. In InDesign, I set up a frame the same width and no matter what fitting opitons I try, the graphic will not fill the frame.
If I chose fit frame to content, there is a .04165" gap around my graphic. Is there a way to have the graphic drawn to size in Illustrator and then completely fill a frame the same size in Indesign?
Thanks,
Phil

I used to create a no-fill, no-stroke box as a bounding box to help me with placement when I got the Illustrator file into Quark (I hadn't learned ID yet when I had that job). It was a music publisher, and if I wanted a two-measure musical example centered on the Quark page, I exported from the music notation program and opened in Illustrator, made the Illustrator bounding box the width of the Quark live area, and centered the musical example, within the bounding box in Illustrator. After I placed the Illustrator file in Quark, I fit the picture box to the image and snapped the box to the margin guides. I could have used Quark to center the example with the text boxes on either side, but seeing the picture box snapped to the margin guides gave a quicker visual that things were centered correctly.
That's one way that the bounding box would be a different size than the art itself, but you could argue that the bounding box was part of the art, even though it wasn't a visible part.

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