Re: 1275 Pilot Bushing Puller

Thanks everyone.  I did manage to coax it out with a  rather crude puller 
(using a bolt head to "hook" the back edge of the bushing).  It sounds like 
the grease trick is the simplest approach.  I just didn't have a suitably 
sized bolt of dowel handy last night, and I was determined to get that thing 
out! :)

Kurtis

>A friend showed me a nice elegant way to remove these.  (I had a very 
>stubborn bushing on my 5.0L V8).  A tap that is just big enough to bite in 
>to the bushing will pull that out as soon as it bottoms in the crank.  (For 
>the V8 I needed a 1" tap that I found at a swap meet for $1.  Need not be 
>machine shop perfect.)  To make it bottom sooner and without resistance, I 
>put a steel bearing ball in the bore before inserting the tap.  I was 
>surprised how easily it worked.  Most difficult part was to keep the crank 
>from turning.
>
> Frank Clarici wrote:
>
>> What David said or take a cheap or dead chisel and chisel a slot in the 
>> old bushing, it will fall out.