how is everyone removing their pilot bearing? mine is siezed inside the crank, i tried a puller and even packing it with grease and putting the alignment tool in and pushing it out? i need help

 

Drill out the sides of it very carefully

 

For the love of GOD no more grease!!! There is a freeze plug behind the bearing that will blow out under pressure and when you crank up your car you will have a nice oil leak.

Josh

BTW get a flathead and a hammer. Chisel at four corners until a piece breaks and then just naw at the piece a little more and it will fall apart. It takes 10 minutes this way and trust me I tried all methods besides grease for atleast 4 or 5 hours.

 

I prefer the slide hammer method. I use a single jaw wedge it in there & pop it out.
If it wont go drill as a last resort

 

my buddy worked at murrays, so we borrowed the slide hammer, and we had to "modify" the jaw with a grinder to get it to fit on nicely, lol.

it was on his mustang, he said he felt like he beat his meat for an hour, but the bitch came out

 

so new plan NO MORE GREASE! ill try to drill it out i tried everything else, i got so worked up i left the car there and went fishing

 

Its a bit pricey but snap-on sells a nice removal tool for those. I have never had trouble getting a pilot bearing out with it, and ive seen some nasty ones.

 

dont use greese thats dumb

slide hammer ???

 

slide hammer works great

 

Hye Brandon, Don't use grease.

 

Did you try the blind hole puller from Autotzone? I tried with a regular slide hammer for aout a hour, and the pilot wouldn't budge. Went and got the blind hole puller and it was out in 30 seconds.

 

i ended up getting a slide hammer and grinding down the hook to fit inside the old pilot bearing

 

This may be a bumb question but can you use heat on it? Or is there some kind of seal to be concerned about?

 

Don't use another roller pin bearing in it's place... use a bronze bushing instead...

I just had my 5th clutch install and my tranny guy said for the amount of power/torque the LS1 puts out the pin bearings go to ****... I got a bronze replacement bushing instead and it's much better for the main shaft as well...

 

He already put it back in.

 

I had to use the hammer and chisel method on mine a few weeks back. Slide hammer did not want to work but it butchered the old bearing. Chisel finished it off and finally got it out.