Re: 1275 Pilot Bushing Puller

A friend showed me a nice elegant way to remove these.  (I had a very 
stubborn bushing on my 5.0L V8).  A tap that is just big enough to bite 
in to the bushing will pull that out as soon as it bottoms in the 
crank.  (For the V8 I needed a 1" tap that I found at a swap meet for 
$1.  Need not be machine shop perfect.)  To make it bottom sooner and 
without resistance, I put a steel bearing ball in the bore before 
inserting the tap.  I was surprised how easily it worked.  Most 
difficult part was to keep the crank from turning.

Frank Clarici wrote:

> What David said or take a cheap or dead chisel and chisel a slot in 
> the old bushing, it will fall out.