pilot bearing
- Thread starter mity2
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i heard you can take a bar of soap, cut it into pieces that will fit inside there, then take a dowl of something round thats about the same size as the hole and tap it in with a hammer and keep adding more soap untill it presses the bearing out. then just scrape/wash out the soap
DCjuggalo
Member
mity2 said:
i tried the soap and rod on my 5.0 but the rod wasnt the right diamter, so i just used a drill to get it out, be careful though
forpit2000gt
Founding Member
I have heard about grease and soap. I go fo using the slide hammer tool and saying a lot of awful things until it comes out.
forpit2000gt
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Tylerb59
Banned
Have a friend hold onto the crank pulley bolt on the front of the engine with a wrench ... preferably a breaker bar for his sake.
Remember to go in a cross pattern when tightening these bolts and in steps ... last bolts you want to be off balance, and break from vibration.
Remember to go in a cross pattern when tightening these bolts and in steps ... last bolts you want to be off balance, and break from vibration.
Spiggs
New Member
Put grease into the center of the pilot bearing. You may need to almost fill it up. Take the alignment tool provided with the new clutch kit, (or a metal rod of the same diameter) and just barely put it inside the pilot, then hit it with a hammer. The grease should act something like a hydraulic ram and push the pilot out. I use that trick at work in the maintenance shop all the time on S-10's.
i got it out. my neigbor had pilot bearing removal kit laying around, and let me borrow it. Along with 30 gal aircompressor, impact wrentch, and tranny jack
forpit2000gt
Founding Member
No kidding--is your neighbor an established mechanic? 
Pearl02
Member
On my Mazda B4000 once I had the flywheel off, I used a old socket that was the same size and a hammer to tap it out. Pearl02.
CanadaStang
New Member
The grease trick works very well. When installing the new pilot bearing, put it in your frezzer for a few hours. The bearing will shrink enough from the cold to allow it to slid in a lot easier. Make sure you grease it up good before you tap it in with a wood dowl so as to not damage it.
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