Xophertony

hey all. i am right now in the middle of replacing my worn clutch. i rented a pilot bushing/bearing puller, so i could replace my pilot bushing as well. but the hole in the center (for the trans input shaft) is so small the puller fingers cannot go into it.

how do you get the pilot bushiung out? does it even have a pilot bushing? if so do i need to replace it?

any help would be much appreciated, i am going to go have my flywheel resurfaced, wheni get back i am putting it back in. hopefully i will know by then. thanks guys.

JamesC

iTrader: (5)

Pack the bushing with heavy grease, then using something the size of the hole (I used an alignment tool), whack it with a BGH. Couple of blows and the bushing is out.

Yes.

Yes.

JamesC

Xophertony

well, i could not get the tranny back on yesterday. ( i think becasue i fubared the bushing) going to re-attempt today. since nothing is back together yet i am going to re-attempt the grease+bar+BFH (big friendly hammer) trick once more. the pressure plate will only take a few minutes to remove so i might as well not re-use my 40K mile pilot bushing.

Xophertony

ok, threaded a big bolt into the bushing and used a slide hammer to YANK it out, put the new pilot bushing in and spent another 3 hrs trying to get the tranny back on. good lord.............. perhaps monday.

molopaa

iTrader: (1)

A little tip getting the tranny on (I know from experience. Took me x hours and a whole lot of cursing)

Build/get a mechanical or hydraulic jacks and attach them to a simple frame that has wheels under it. This way you can control the height/tilt of the trans very precisely, while moving it in. This will still require LOTS of wiggling, hitting, shouting and probably a few squirts of blood.

molopaa

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I basically had two of these cheap jacks screwed to a piece of wood, with four wheels from an office chair attached underneath.

Xophertony

hmmm... interesting idea. you have baisically made a poormans trannsmission jack there. nice job.

we are using a kick *** hydrolic floor jack. and the tranny is so light you can move it around quite alot once it's up there. we were just bench pressing it up everytime, but our arms got tired after a while.

molopaa

iTrader: (1)

The reason I had to make a "custom made" trans jack, was that the car was on up stands, you couldn't fit any normal transmisson jack undet the car. If I had had the car properly up (so you could stand underneath it), then I'd had no problem. Just a little trip to the store and bam! A real trans jack.

All the ones I saw in the stores where 4-5 ft high, meant for real autorepair shops with proper 4-point hydraulic lifts.

Xophertony

yeah, my car is on stands as well. and BTW i was not dissing your jack, i think it was an awsome idea. "poor mans" is just a way of sayng "does the same thing as professional equipment at a fraction of the cost, but looks as cheap as it is" it was not disrespectful.

one of my cascadecrew guys has actualy got my thinking two things:
one: i need to grease my splines and input shaft a bit.
two: i may have my clutch disc in backwards

once i fix those two things (i hope that is what is wrong) then it should slide right in....

molopaa

iTrader: (1)

Yeah, grease is definetly your friend in this thing, but be careful not to spill it you know where. Also the tilt of the trans cannot be stressed enough.

And on a side note, some of my handiest tools have been real ghetto style poor man's tools Sometimes you just can't find what you need in a store.

Xophertony

amen to that.

UPDATE:
pilot bushing was the wrong size, all places closed for labor day (or closed early) for labor day. i'll be back on it tomorow.