I bought a pilot bearing to replace the bushing when I cange the clutch. I'm not exacly sure how to go about getting the old on out. A guy a work tolg me he packs it with greese and then uses a shaft that just fits into the hole. I guess by hitting the shaft you pressurize the greese and force the bushing out. It kind of sounds like it might work in principal or he could be just trying to cover me in greese to get a good laugh. Anybody else ever heard of this method, or have any others

 

He's not BSing you. He's obviously done one or 2 of them.

That's exactly how I do it. Keep adding grease as it comes out, you'll probably have to add grease 2 or 3 times before it comes all the way out.

Works every time. I know of no better way. Can't imagine how any other way could be better, actually, it works so well.

Let us know how it works for you.

 

I used a concrete bit that just fit in the hole and turned till it broke loss and it pulled right out while continuing to turn it. It helped I greased the bearing just a touch before install to make it easier to drive in.

 

i used the greese method for year till i bought a puller at a yard sale, now i use the puller

 

Grease method here too!

 

Can't beat the grease pack!

 

well I tried the grease method and squirted grease everywhere. I just borrowed a puller and a slide hammer from autozone.

 

I tried that grease method. I packed the whole thing full of grease, got my wooden dowel in the hole, smacked it with a small sledge and almost killed myself when the sledge bounced back at me. No matter what I did I couldn't get enough grease in there to get all the air pockets out. I finally gave up, went down and bought a bearing puller. 2 minutes later my bearing was out. I'll never dick around with the grease method again. Not when a bearing puller works so quickly, easily, and CLEANLY.

 

I have a couple of old clutch gears that I use.... a clutch alignment tool will work too.... I've never felt it worth the effort of getting another tool, the grease method works so well for me.

Maybe I just communicate with grease better than some people? One of those mind-meld things??

 

Perhaps so? Maybe it's just a personality trait, like being good with animals or something.

 

 

I used to use grease. A couple of years back my brother in law told me to try soap. Take a bar of soap, cut some slices off with your pocket knife and push them into the bushing. Then use a wooden dowl (or an old input shaft) and drive the dowl rod in with your hammer. The soap is much more viscous than the grease and doesn't make a mess. One time convinced me. Try it, you'll like it.