Since this is a tech topic I wanted to put it in tech forum.
Just a reminder or a tip if you happen to have never heard it. I was again today reminded how slick this tip is.
I removed the pilot bushing from a crank using an old Muncie four speed input shaft and a bunch of grease. Filled the cavity with grease, tapped the input snout in until it bottomed on the bushing, filled the cavity with grease again, tapped the input and out it came. It took me far longer to type this than to do it, maybe 1 minute total. So slick!!!
Beaumont4008 said
Nov 9, 2009
Great tip, I have one to take out. Will give it a try.
4SPEED427 said
Nov 9, 2009
Just make sure you fill it right full to start, and you have to fill it up again once the bushing comes part way out. It loses the hydraulic advantage as the grease is trying to fill a larger void than you start with.
Stephenzone said
Nov 10, 2009
i've always taken them out that way
Ghost Post said
Nov 10, 2009
Stephenzone wrote:
i've always taken them out that way
Me too!. Wish the roller ones were as easy and reusable too..
-Robert M- said
Dec 24, 2017
Just a heartfelt word of thanks. In the midst of putting clutch kit into 59.
Was wrestlng with bushing for hours - the removal kit slide hammer thingy I bought failed miserably.
Admittedly, I had seen this method on YouTube but dismissed as, invariably, it was with a two year old Subaru or Honda and some looked downright staged.
Read Carls post and realized it had been done with one of our relics so must be something to it.
15 minutes, out it came.
BIG thank you...
RGM
seventy2plus2 said
Dec 24, 2017
Yup, people have been using this method for decades. Glad it worked for you.
4SPEED427 said
Dec 24, 2017
It makes sense when you think about it, but I still find it amazing!
I see guys using pilot bushing pullers and I think "why"? This is fast, simple and cheap.
JC2+2 said
Dec 24, 2017
Here's a faster and easier way yet. As long as it's a brass bushing take a large enough tap (5/8" if I remember correctly) and run the tap into the bushing and keep going after it bottoms out. Pushes the bushing right out. If you use an air ratchet to drive the tap, takes about 10 seconds. If it's a bearing wrap electrical tape around a shaft and use the grease trick. Helps to seal in the grease.
4SPEED427 said
Dec 24, 2017
I didn't have much trouble with grease leaking out the shaft but maybe the bearing was in pretty nice shape too.
57 Pathfinder said
Dec 24, 2017
The tap works better for not shooting grease back at your face...lol
4SPEED427 said
Dec 25, 2017
But what to you do with dry skin issues then?
Fake68 said
Dec 25, 2017
filling it up with wadded up wet paper also works. I had a roller bushing I could not get out with grease and the paper worked no problem... It doesn't squirt out as bad and WAY less messy.
4SPEED427 said
Dec 25, 2017
Just some paper towel or something, soaking wet? Never would have thought of that.
Takes an engineer to figure that one out.......!
Fake68 said
Dec 25, 2017
Just like spitballs !!
I can't take credit for the idea but it works !
Turtle said
Jan 15, 2018
I used the big end of a 3/8 drive extension with a little electrical tape wrapped around the end for a tight fit. Filled cavity with grease and popped it out with a couple of taps.
I have always used the grease method to remove the bronze bushings. The reason being that I can reuse it in the replacement engine. Back in the eighties new ones were about two bucks, but that didnt help when they were out of stock!
Just a reminder or a tip if you happen to have never heard it. I was again today reminded how slick this tip is.
I removed the pilot bushing from a crank using an old Muncie four speed input shaft and a bunch of grease. Filled the cavity with grease, tapped the input snout in until it bottomed on the bushing, filled the cavity with grease again, tapped the input and out it came. It took me far longer to type this than to do it, maybe 1 minute total. So slick!!!
Wish the roller ones were as easy and reusable too..
Just a heartfelt word of thanks. In the midst of putting clutch kit into 59.
Was wrestlng with bushing for hours - the removal kit slide hammer thingy I bought failed miserably.
Admittedly, I had seen this method on YouTube but dismissed as, invariably, it was with a two year old Subaru or Honda and some looked downright staged.
Read Carls post and realized it had been done with one of our relics so must be something to it.
15 minutes, out it came.
BIG thank you...
RGM
I see guys using pilot bushing pullers and I think "why"? This is fast, simple and cheap.
Takes an engineer to figure that one out.......!
I can't take credit for the idea but it works !
Paul