Pilot Bearing Help!
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Pilot Bearing Help!
I am in the process of changing my clutch on my truck. I can't get the pilot bearing out!! I first tired the grease and dowel trick, didn't not work. So i got a puller attachmend for a slide hammer... I got the inside of the bearing out now I just have the race to get out. I broke two different attachments for the puller!! I'm not sure what else to try! Is there a trick? I'm not sure if you can use heat or not, any ideas? Thanks guys, i'm getting very frustrated
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when i did mine the same thing happened, the bearing came out but the body stayed in the crank. i took a 3/4" cold chisel and a 2lb hammer to it. split it, then collapsed it out.
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Probably too late for you now, but may not always have to change out pilot. I once changed out the clutch on my '84 F150 and didn't even know what a pilot bearing was, nor did I have the flywheel turned. Ran fine and for about 70,000 miles on that clutch. Next time a shop did it and both changed out the pilot bearing (had to chisel it into pieces) and turned the flywheel.
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Yeah you can hammer and chisel it out if you want to, that's what I did for a long time. Then I got smart and bought a 3-jaw puller meant for removing pilot bearings/bushings... works like a charm! Got it through Harbor Freight for 12 bucks.
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This is a bit far fetched, but in the back of my withering mind I recall something about using grease and a tight fitting dowel or something like that. The idea is that you pack the hole with grease, then the dowel creates a tight seal. You beat in the dowel and the grease hydraulically pushes out the bearing. I don't know where I heard it, but it sounds really great, though it also seems like it would not really work.
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