Pilot bearing...help

[ninety15.0]

I cant get the old pilot bearing assembly out of my crank to put a new one in....we tried using a bearing puller but the thing is a piece of $hit...one of the arms is bent so it's nearly impossible to get it to stay in those two small grooves. Any help or suggestions on this matter would be greatly appreciated...thanks in advance.

 

[5LugFoxFanatic]

Did you try packing it with grease? The pilot bearing that is.

 

[Car RamRod]

I cant get the old pilot bearing assembly out of my crank to put a new one in....we tried using a bearing puller but the thing is a piece of $hit...one of the arms is bent so it's nearly impossible to get it to stay in those two small grooves. Any help or suggestions on this matter would be greatly appreciated...thanks in advance.

What I did is defintely not the right way, but I took a small chisel and took th old bearing out chunks at a time.
It was worth it though. The old one had CHINA stamped in it....the new one had USA, I had to make the change.

 

[Euphoric306]

yea, pack it with grease, the hole where the input shaft goes, then get like an extension of some rod that fits in the hole, and hit it with a hammer.. the grease should act like hydraulic or something and push the bearing out


if all else fails.... time for a lightweight flywheel?

 

[Mysterio]

My pilot bearing wouldn't come out for the life of me. We packed it with grease and it just squeezed grease out wouldn't come out. We put a bolt in there with a not and wedged it in and it just ripped the inside bearings out but left the casing there. I Ended up going and renting a slide hammer, but that wouldn't stay in the little groove... So we had to put the slide hammer in and shimmed off a piece of wood and wedged in in there real ****in hard so it would hold in there then the slide hammer yanked the bearing right out.

 

[stang99x]

Sometimes you can wedge a, like 15mm wrench in there just right and it will pop out. Other times, about 4 hours of cussing and yelling and 50 pieces later you'll get it

 

[CarbdFord.com]

I have never had the grease trick not work. Use bearing grease, the thick stuff. Find a deep socket that fits the hole pretty snug, put it on an extension you dont care about then tape it to the extension with black electrical tape so you can pull it back out. Then pack the socket with grease too. Put a thin rag or shirt piece tightly around the end of it to help it seal. Put it in there and hammer on it, then pull it back out, add some grease and repeate. After a couple of hits you should see the bearing move, as it moves pull the socket out and add more grease to take up the extra space. It will work I have done it tons of times on the most stuborn of bearings. As long as the seal is good it will work.