When I last did this on my 1275 Midget, I found an old drill bit that
was really close, but I don't recall now what bit it was. I filled the
bushing with grease, inserted the butt end of the drill bit, placed a
1x2 over it and hit it with a dead blow hammer. Out popped the old
bushing onto the drill bit.
Cheers!!
Jim - 68 Midget in Dodge City
On 8/27/06, Bud Pazur <bpazur@excel.net> wrote:
> WST and I were trying to remove the pilot bushing from the rear of my 1275
> crank. A while back someone had suggeted filling the back with grease, finding
> a bolt or something close to the bushing ID, and pounding the bolt in to force
> the bushing out with grease pressure. After measuring and trying every bolt,
> socket and anything else round in Flounder's shop, and having nothing work,
> we were stopped cold. One half inch was too loose, 9/16" wouldn't fit into the
> bushing. And we didn't have a chisel that would fit either. Then I noticed a
> gear puller. I measured the OD of the gear puller bolt - it was around 0.530",
> with fine threads. I screwed that into the bronze pilot bushing and pulled it
> right out. No damage to the puller bolt or crankshaft. Of course, the bushing
> was boogered up, but we were going to replace that anyway.
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