You could of course fill with grease, insert the end of the shaft, wrap area
with shop towel, hit with hammer. Cleaner I would think...
Dan
Martin Scarr wrote:
>
> 90wt oil won't work, but grease will work. Unfortunately, it can be very
> messy. There's a cleaner method, and that's to use white bread. Pack it
> in, pound on it with your dummy shaft, add more bread, pound away. The
> bushing will be pushed out.
>
> Another method is to tap the bushing, and use a bolt to draw it out. The
> bolt will push against the end of the crankshaft and push out the bushing.
> The white bread method is quicker, though.
>
> Regards
> Martin Scarr
>
> On Sat, 1 May 1999, The Becketts wrote:
>
> > Andrew McKenzie asked:
> >
> > >What is the least difficult way of removing a
> > > pilot bush in a '82 Rover 3.5L V8 that originally ran a BW66 auto box?
> >
> > I've heard of but never tried the following method.
> > Fill the bush hole with heavy oil (90wt?). Push the input shaft into the
> > bush and the hydraulic pressure will push the bush out.
> > If this works, I be tempted to turn up a dummy shaft to hit in with a
> > hammer to shock the bush out.
> >
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