Re: Ideas for cleaning out old pilot bearing ...

[audistuff@juno.com (Paul R Anderson)]

No, no, no!

Read carefully.

fill the cavity in the end of the crankshaft with heavy grease
find a socket that will just barely go through the hole
put an extension in it and rap it with a hammer.

refill the hole, making sure to get all air out,
repeat.

A couple of weeks ago, this took me about 8 rounds to
drive the bearing out.  No damage to anything.  I reused
the bearing.\


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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:48:55 -0800 Russ Southerlin
<russell.s.southerlin@lmco.com> writes:
>Steve wrote:
>> Any ideas for a tool that might be able to help me
>> extricate myself from my current situation would be much 
>appreciated!  If I
>> could get the thing out I'm sure I could have the car back on the 
>road in a
>> few hours ...
>
>Had the exact problem on my 5KTQ. After trying to faricate a puller 
>out
>of bolts and washers and trying heating and cooling I ended up doing 
>the
>chisel thing.  
>
>Took a good quality chisel and carefully cut into the bearing housing
>trying not to gouge into the flywheel. Had to re-sharpen the chisel
>quite often.  Did this at two locations about 180 degrees apart.  Was 
>a
>real bit?h.  I did gouge the flywheel a little but cleaned it up with 
>a
>round file on a drill.  So far it has done fine in 10K miles.
>
>Good Luck!
>
>Russ
>87 5KCSTQ
>Littleton, CO
>

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