I wanted to put a new pilot bearing into my engine before dropping it into my car. Figure it is accessable now, won't be easier later.

The old bearing is gone, except for the cage still stuck in the eccentric shaft. I have tried to pull it and chisel it. All that I have accomplished is dulling my chisel and gotten no where with removing it.

How the hell does it come out?

 

Pilot bearing removal tool somewhere near 100 bucks from atkins rotary or go to your local parts store and rent it for 5 dollars

 

The tools you can rent do not work without some serious modification. A die grinder, patience, and many four letter words are probably on the way.

 

rotarygod is exactly right. Don't bother renting anything. Use a dremmel or something similiar. It's a bitch, but it works. Good luck!

 

I used a $29 die grinder with an 1/8" burr bit. Grind until the cage turns blue. Then take a chisel 90^ apart and tap it free.

 

dremmel cut it into two pieces.. used small screwdriver to bend it and get it out...
used a socket to hammer the new one back in..

Tried a gear puller to pull it out... good luck.. Just dremel/die grind it out..

 

I removed the pilot bearing an hour ago using a pilot removal tool that I loaned from Auto zone. It took me less than 2 minutes to remove it. It was my first time doing it and it was real easy using that tool. Borrow or rent one from your local auto part store and forget about a lot of aggrevations.

 

I don't have a specific pilot bearing removal tool, but I do have a bearing puller. That thing won't even budge it, even using a nice size hammer and hoping that I don't smash my fingers. I have quite a bit of my weight on it to hold the puller in place and then I smashed the thing with a hammer and it didn't move.

I will do the dremel trick though, didn't think of that one.

 

Okay read this thread... and beware of the grinding idea... some have used it sucsessfully .. others (myself included) wished they did not try it. Try the paper idea the guy posted in this thread first .... my sugestion

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...hlight=butcher

 

Now, I was using a 22,000 RPM .. 110PSI die grinder. It tore **** up faster than I thought it would .. you might be okay with a dremel, but I would still try the generic "hydrolic" method first

 

I am trying that water trick for sure!

The physics behind will work, water has to go somewhere in a sealed state!

 

Mel

You are lucky! Don't know how you did it but I couldn't get the bearing out with their tool. I did invent some new words trying though!