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fordtrucks-digest Friday, September 5 1997 Volume 01 : Number 192



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In this issue:

RE: C6 Noise [DC Beatty ]
F150 [reedg ns2.cetlink.net]
pilot bearing removal ["Lee Hardy" ]
53 F-100 ["Dennis King" ]
Re: pilot bearing removal [sdelanty sonic.net]
Re: pilot bearing removal [sdelanty sonic.net]
Re: pilot bearing removal [spowel4 ibm.net]
Re: pilot bearing removal ["Mark Mech" ]
Re: [marko helix.net (marko maryniak)]

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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 19:24:10 -0400
From: DC Beatty
Subject: RE: C6 Noise

Gary, actually tranny pumps can make the exact same noise. I guess it's
just a hydraulic pump noise. Mine does it every once in awhile but I hope=

that if I ignore it hard enough it will go away. =


If you hear the noise and it sounds like it's coming from underneath the
truck and turning the steering wheel doesn't change it it may be the tran=
ny
pump.

Hope this helps,

DC Beatty1967 F100 352
1974 Maverick 302




a tranny which goes up and down with engine rpm?>>>

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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 19:28:06 +0000
From: reedg ns2.cetlink.net
Subject: F150

Does anyone have a '73 to 78 F150 that came with a 460 as original
equipment?

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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 20:18:17 -0400
From: "Lee Hardy"
Subject: pilot bearing removal

To Mike: To easily remove pilot bearing and for about 10 cents, select a
straight drift pin that fairly fits into pilot bearing hole, remove it,
fill the cavity with WHEEL BEARING grease, packing it completely, insert
drift and hit sharply with hammer. The hydraulic pressure will force
bearing out undamaged. PS...wear safety goggles in case of splatter. Hope
this helps..Lee Hardy

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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 22:23:39 -0400
From: "Dennis King"
Subject: 53 F-100

I am new to the list. It has been my dream for sometime to have a 53-56
F-100. I have the chance to buy a 53. It's in pretty sad shape. The current
owner tried to put it on the road about 10 years ago. He put in a motor,
trans, body work, etc. only to see the frame break when he jacked it up to
put on his new wheels & tires. (You would have thought he would have
checked the frame before dumping all that time and money in it.)
Any way my plan is to buy the 53 now, tear it apart and put it in storage
for a couple of years until I come up with some extra cash. I would like to
pick up a wrecked early 90's F150 short bed (hopefully a Lightning) and use
it's frame and running gear.

Has any one out there done this type of project?

Denny King
dking techteamusa.com

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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 20:00:37 -0700
From: sdelanty sonic.net
Subject: Re: pilot bearing removal

>>OK Guys, need help:
>>Well, the flywheel's on the garage floor now and the pilot bearing
>>is pressed into the back flange of the crankshaft (damn!).
>>
>>Looking at it a little bit and poking a little bit with a Big screwdriver,
>>it looks like it'll be a SOB to get out. Is there a special tool for this
>>(like an inverted gear puller w/ the little hooks pointed out)?

>Simple fix. Get a metal rod (steel, brass, etc.) that fits into the pilot
>bearing snugly. Fill the hole in the pilot bearing with grease and use a
>hammer to drive the grease in. Simple hydraulics. Grease goes in, bearing
>comes out - usually :)
>
>Good luck,
>
>Mike

Yes, I agree with Mike. This is a method I've used to get bearings
and bushings out of blind holes many times..

Pack the area behind the bearing and the hole in the bearing as full
as possible, try not to leave any air space and drive a snug fitting rod in.
(a cut off pilot shaft from a junk tranny is ideal)
You may have to remove the rod and add more grease once or twice before
the bushing is out.

Hydraulics IS cool...

Steve Delanty
1971 F100 FE390 (patiently waiting for twin turbo's)

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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 20:27:30 -0700
From: sdelanty sonic.net
Subject: Re: pilot bearing removal

>There is a tool for pulling a pilot bearing that consists of a threaded
>fitting that you screw into the pilot hole and it has a zirk fitting on it.
>You then hook your grease gun to it and pump the bearing out with grease. I
>believe the tool is under $10.00 and it works well, I've used it.
>

Yeow! Now that's a cool idea!
I've used the "grease and rod" hydraulic method before, but never
thought about using a grease zerk.
You can get a metric sh!tload of pressure from a good grease gun.
Lots of track tensioners on industrial equipment use a hyd cylinder
with a grease zerk in it.. I've adjusted scores of them.
Never thought about applying it to a blind bearing puller.

Hmmm, maybe You *do* learn something new every day. (-:


Steve Delanty
1971 F100 FE390 (patiently waiting for twin turbo's)

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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 97 23:42:06 -0400
From: spowel4 ibm.net
Subject: Re: pilot bearing removal

In , on 09/04/97
at 12:16 PM, "Dave Resch" said:


>OK Guys, need help:

>After suffering through the last few weeks in our spare car (my wife's
>ex-car '84 Escort 1.6 HO - ha ha!) while work kept me too busy to fix the
>clutch in my F250/351M/NP435, I've finally pulled everything out of the
>truck.
>Looking at the Haynes and Chiltons pictures, I thought (kinda hoped,
>fingers crossed) that the pilot bearing was pressed into the flywheel
>center. Well, the flywheel's on the garage floor now and the pilot
>bearing is pressed into the back flange of the crankshaft (damn!).

>Looking at it a little bit and poking a little bit with a Big
>screwdriver, it looks like it'll be a SOB to get out. Is there a special
>tool for this (like an inverted gear puller w/ the little hooks pointed
>out)? The old bearing is pretty well hashed, w/ at least 160K miles that
>I know of on it, so I don't care about saving it. Is there a way to get
>the pilot bearing out w/out a special tool?

>Thanks in advance for any advice/help/sympathy.

>Dave R. (M-block devotee)
>1980 F250 4x4 351M


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You can get a pilot bearing puller from J.C. Whitney for under $20 and it
works like a charm. Simply seat claws(jaws?) of puller behind bearing and
turn handle until bearing comes out. Easy! --
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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 21:02:51 -0700
From: "Mark Mech"
Subject: Re: pilot bearing removal

The "tool" I used (Borrowed from a mechanic friend)
was no more than a fitting with heavily tapered fine threads and a zirk in
the center.
Mark Mech
1913 E. El Parque
Tempe, Arizona 85282
aerofoam earthlink.net
http://www.ford-trucks.com//lc/lc.php?action=do&link=http://home.earthlink.net/~aerofoam/

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> From: sdelanty sonic.net
> To: fordtrucks ListService.net
> Subject: Re: pilot bearing removal
> Date: Thursday, September 04, 1997 8:27 PM
>
>
> >There is a tool for pulling a pilot bearing that consists of a threaded
> >fitting that you screw into the pilot hole and it has a zirk fitting on
it.
> >You then hook your grease gun to it and pump the bearing out with
grease. I
> >believe the tool is under $10.00 and it works well, I've used it.
> >
>
> Yeow! Now that's a cool idea!
> I've used the "grease and rod" hydraulic method before, but never
> thought about using a grease zerk.
> You can get a metric sh!tload of pressure from a good grease gun.
> Lots of track tensioners on industrial equipment use a hyd cylinder
> with a grease zerk in it.. I've adjusted scores of them.
> Never thought about applying it to a blind bearing puller.
>
> Hmmm, maybe You *do* learn something new every day. (-:
>
>
> Steve Delanty
> 1971 F100 FE390 (patiently waiting for twin turbo's)
>
> +-------------- Ford Truck Enthusiasts - 1979 and Older --------------+
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Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 00:50:26 -0700
From: marko helix.net (marko maryniak)
Subject: Re:

>I was wrong about the tranny in my last post it has a cover on the side but
>it looks like the top comes off, so I guess its a top loader.
>
> Mark Mech
>

Mark,

Sounds like you may have the NP435 4 speed. Does it have a "granny" first
gear?

If so, then you ought to have little trouble finding a bell housing, in fact
there are several in the scraps up here. Look at F250 camper specials, they....

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