Removing bushing at back of crank...

[gerard]

Just some feedback. I got the bushings out.

After having no luck with the grease, and finding internal pullers for
$146 (!!!!) for something I'd use only once, I decided to try my luck at
this one more time.

That bushing has a 15mm opening. I looked around for a M16 tap, but they
were $13 to $20 for something I'd use only once. Then called up a marine
engineering workshop who said I could use their M16 tap and tap handle.
Picked it up this morning, spent $2.47 on a M16x150 bolt (I'd only use
it once, but the price is more like it!) and headed home.

I tapped the bushing in the old crank, then took the huge tap handle and
slid it over the M16 bolt's shank and then screwed the bolt into the
bushing. The handle became a sliding hammer and some knocking later,
maybe 30 seconds, I had the bushing out.

I repeated this with the crank on the engine, but I got it a bit
misaligned and turned the crank a bit. No big deal really. Less than a
minute later I had the thing out.

On another note, I ran out of thick grease in the old grease gun I had,
so at the end of trying the grease thing I wound up using a cannister of
lithium-based grease and wound up with the stuff on my hands for a long
time. Dangerous? Instructions say avoid contact with skin.

G.