Clutch install
08-07-2008, 11:38 AM
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The throw out bearing is part of the slave cylinder. When I did mine, I replaced the rear main seal and rear main seal housing gasket, I dont know how many miles are on your car but I had 140K on mine when I did it and those seals were leaking so I did it while I had the tranny out since you have to pull the trans to do the rear main. I got the gaskets from my local dealer, about 20 for the rear main and 30 for the housing gasket. I had to go back and get another rear main because when I opened it up the lip was cracked from being dry, probably sat on the shelf for a long time, so I would check it before you buy it if you end up replacing it.
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08-07-2008, 09:32 PM
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Harbor Freight sells a blind hole extractor kit, its a small sized slide hammer with some attachments in a nice small case, works great and only cost about 30 bucks, ive used it on my pilot bearing and the 2 others iv done for people in the past month, heres a link. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=95987
08-07-2008, 09:42 PM
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Stick a grease gun into the hole in the pilot bushing and pump it till the small area behind it completely fills up with grease. It maybe takes an ounce of grease to fill it up. Then take a metal rod or bolt that is just slightly smaller in diameter than the hole in the pilot, slide it into the hole and give it a couple whacks with a hammer. This will effectively displace the grease so it pushes on the backside of the bushing and it will start to come out. Then if needed, pump in a little more grease to fill it back up and repeat the process.
08-07-2008, 11:01 PM
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Stick a grease gun into the hole in the pilot bushing and pump it till the small area behind it completely fills up with grease. It maybe takes an ounce of grease to fill it up. Then take a metal rod or bolt that is just slightly smaller in diameter than the hole in the pilot, slide it into the hole and give it a couple whacks with a hammer. This will effectively displace the grease so it pushes on the backside of the bushing and it will start to come out. Then if needed, pump in a little more grease to fill it back up and repeat the process.
08-08-2008, 10:53 AM
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08-13-2008, 10:37 PM
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If you know what a freeze plug is, and you pull your old pilot bearing you will see that there is one in that end of the crank, right behind the pilot bearing. Very strange because I was not familar with this until I did my clutch swap. Old school V8's like the 400 pontiac block I have or an old 350 do not have this. Pretty strange.
08-14-2008, 04:48 PM
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If you know what a freeze plug is, and you pull your old pilot bearing you will see that there is one in that end of the crank, right behind the pilot bearing. Very strange because I was not familar with this until I did my clutch swap. Old school V8's like the 400 pontiac block I have or an old 350 do not have this. Pretty strange.
08-15-2008, 09:01 AM
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I finished the install on monday. I just used the pilot bearing puller from autozone. The was actually to big to fit in the bearing but after a little fanagling and a few wacks with a hammer i was able to get it in far enough to pull it out. everything else in and it works great.