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I bought a Buffalo adapter to use a th200-4r with my 248. The instructions say to remove the pilot bearing. I tried to remove it with the grease pack method. The grease just squirted through the bearing and made a mess. Now I'm wondering what it would hurt to leave the bearing in place. Why does it have to be removed?
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I'm not sure on this one but I believe there is a tapered nubin on the front of the torque converter that will hit the pilot bearing if you don't remove it.
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Originally posted by cletis:
I tried to remove it with the grease pack method. Grease pack method? I my have to remove the pilot bushing from my 235. Will that work to and how does it work at all? Never heard of it. thanks, Frank
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I actually rented a 'pilot bearing puller' from a local tool rental place a few years back. It's a slide puller type affair, with three fingers with small hooks on the ends that slide inside the pilot bearing, check around in you area, great tool.
The grease method I've used before with some success. Just pack the area behind the pilot bearing full with grease. I used a wooden dowel that fit pretty tight in the hole and drove it in with a hammar and the bearing spit right out, well sometimes. Other time I had to rent the tool.
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The grease pack may work on a pilot bushing but the GMC had a bearing. Since I tried the grease I heard to try it with modeling clay.
I got mine out with a slide hammer I picked up at a swap meet last weekend though.
Thanks, Cletis
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Play Doh works a lot better than grease for the pack method. It is thicker, and doesn't make a mess when you reef on it.
The method used is to pack behind the bearing with the play doh and use a dowel or spare input shaft as a piston to hydraulically force out the bearing.
You can also us a slide hammer if you have the right shaped attachment to grab the inner lip of the bearing. That works ok on my BMW but not on my Chevy.
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I just removed the pilot bushing last Sunday from my 292, I went to the dollar store and got a package of kids modeling clay,stuffed it in the bushing hole, used a 7/16 bolt as a ram. Several light taps with a l lb ball pein hammer and the bushing started movinng, more clay and light taps and the bearing was out. The cleanest and easiest one I have ever removed
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I'm getting ready to replace mine too, does anything have to go inside the pilot bushing or on the imput shaft of the trans when you put it back together like lube or just put it in dry? Thanks
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