quattro digest, Vol 1 #2193 - 17 msgs

[John Lagnese]

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> Message: 8
> From: "Phil Payne" <quattro at isham-research.com>
> To: "gwbutler" <gwbutler at net1plus.com>, <quattro at audifans.com>
> Subject: Re: Pilot Bearing Tools
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:41:48 +0200
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> > Any home-made devices out there fabricated to remove/re-install the pilot
> > bearing from the back of the crank (84ksq)?... my creation didn't work.
> Local
> > auto tool rental places look at me as if I have two heads when I ask about
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> > tools.  I may have to go to Blau!  HEEEELLLLLP! TIA
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> My greatest success to date has been with a long, very high grade and
> correspondingly expensive CHISEL!
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> I have a proper, professional pilot bearing puller using a slide hammer.
> Not very effective.  The 'fill with grease and smack in a tight-fitting
> mandrel' trick certainly doesn't work on my MB or MC engines - the pilot
> bearing cage is closed at the far end.
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>   Phil Payne
>   http://www.isham-research.com
>   +44 7785 302 803
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I got a pilot bearing puller from Harbor Freight. It worked! It may not be a Snap-on, but
for the amount of times it has to be used makes it worth while. It was under $20 IIRC.
John