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!!!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
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.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
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.
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.
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'68 Parisienne 2+2 Convertible Matador Red (Resale Red but not for sale).
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.
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72 Nova SS - Minitubbed 70 Nova SS - #'s L-78 Bench Stick 68 Acadian SS clone - factory air 67 Chevelle rag - SS 427 clone
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!