quik pilot bearing/bushing removal way

[topless82vette]

I had severe clutch chatter with my car and decided to pull the trans and do a clutch job while at it. I believe I found the problem to be a severly worn out pilot bearing to be the cause.

But at any rate a quik and easy way to remove the bushing. Take a bar of soap and pack little piece into the bushing then drive something of close diameter into the pilot bearing/bushing and it will come out pretty quik took me about 5 minutes to do it this way.

 

[duke94]

You can also fill it with grease and drive a bolt that fits close to the bearing ID into it.

 

[topless82vette]

You can also fill it with grease and drive a bolt that fits close to the bearing ID into it.

I tried it before and unless everything is a tight fit grease goes everywhere. Soap does awesome and after your done just take a screw driver and dig it out and no mess to clean up.

 

[JohnZ]

Run a 5/8" NC tap through it, then install a 5/8" NC bolt, run it down until it bottoms out on the crank, then keep turning and it'll pop right out - no grease, no mess.

 

[topless82vette]

hey a quik question though. Would this very badly worn pilot bushing and it's ability to not support my input shaft cause my T-5 to shift weird and hang up between gears? This T-5 was rebuilt about a year ago and it all of a sudden started doing this. The ATF came out very clean, basically it would lock 3rd and 4th together, then other times after parking in 1st and restarting pulling shifter to nuetral it would stay stuck in gear.

No this isn't in my vette and it's never been abused either.

 

[madmax032]

I had severe clutch chatter with my car and decided to pull the trans and do a clutch job while at it. I believe I found the problem to be a severly worn out pilot bearing to be the cause.

But at any rate a quik and easy way to remove the bushing. Take a bar of soap and pack little piece into the bushing then drive something of close diameter into the pilot bearing/bushing and it will come out pretty quik took me about 5 minutes to do it this way.

Sorry for reviving an old topic but the bar soap method worked amazingly well for my 94 C4. I just got the pilot bearing out last night and funnily enough, my rear c beam bolts were the right size for the pilot bearing so I used one to compress the soap through the bearing center and pop out the bearing. My stock pilot bearing was a solid brass type with longitudinal grooves so the grease method would not have worked.
Thank you so much for posting this!