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The HF puller is too large to go in the center of the bearing. I ground down the teeth and made it work. It actually works really well for popping out those pilot bearings.
Pilot Bearing removal Question...???
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It's too bad that the SST tool seems to not be available any more. I bought one about two years ago and it cost less than $35.
Toyota SST Tools
Toyota SST Tools
BS.... first of all grease does not work near as well as bread cuz it's thinner and flows out the hole where that you are trying get a seal on, likely spurting out directly into your eye. Bread on the other hand is ideal because it wont flow out around the shaft your inserting into the hole. I have used the bread trick on an extremely tight pilot bearing and it worked flawlessly for me. It's not mysterious, white bread crammed into a closed space is a very dense material and if you keep pressurizing it it will move just about anything. The trick is to patiently pack it several times so there are no empty spaces, then wrap a tool that just fits into the hole with black electrical tape to make a good seal, get out your hammer and get at it. You might have to take out your shaft, re-wrap it with your tape, then repack the hole with more bread a couple times but if you do this I gaurante you that you will see that sucker move. Try it before you knock it.
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+1 on the bread technique. Thanks for the clue-in.
https://forum.ih8mud.com/fj55-iron-...rivetrain-swap-84-fj60-drivetrain-17.html#330
https://forum.ih8mud.com/fj55-iron-...rivetrain-swap-84-fj60-drivetrain-17.html#330
Bread is much cleaner than using wheel bearing grease , Vaseline or similar . Stings the eyes way less , too .
Sarge
Sarge
Very funny thread - to me. I read thru all the threads on this, and how you use bread, or grease - a bolt of the correct diameter, pullers from here or there. I tried all of these !!!! None worked !!! I busted 2 pilot brg pullers. Went thru 2 loafs of nice soft bread. Gobs of grease. Crap everywhere. I was hammering on the bolt and hit it with a glancing blow. It caused the bolt to fly back out of the pilot bearing (hydraulic pressure), just miss me, and fly thru the garage window behind me. Very agravating ......... Funny in a twisted way, now that I recollect the whole thing.
Nothing worked. Zero. Nada.
Finally, I borrowed a dremel with some carbide bits and sectioned the bearing in a couple of places, nice and careful. Those bits went thru that bearing steel like butta. Then pryed it out. Took me 10 minutes. That thing must have been set in there with super ubber red locktite. Or something.
Cleaned out the bore and pressed in a new bearing, which went in fine.
Whoever rebuilt my engine back whenever did the same on the crank pulley. It aint movin.
Have fun.
Nothing worked. Zero. Nada.
Finally, I borrowed a dremel with some carbide bits and sectioned the bearing in a couple of places, nice and careful. Those bits went thru that bearing steel like butta. Then pryed it out. Took me 10 minutes. That thing must have been set in there with super ubber red locktite. Or something.
Cleaned out the bore and pressed in a new bearing, which went in fine.
Whoever rebuilt my engine back whenever did the same on the crank pulley. It aint movin.
Have fun.
I used a variation on the bread technique. Soaked paper towels in water. It worked just as well and I didn't have to run to the store to buy a loaf of bread, just used a half a roll of cheap paper towels and saved $35 by not buying a tool that I'd never use again.