I used some of my Grandchildren’s “Play-Doh” instead of bread, easy clean up and worked well to remove my pilot bearing.
Have to say there was zero clean-up with bread either, but sure I get that Play-doh would work - might argue peeling all the Play-doh out of the orifice could be more (?) challenging than bread.
But more than one way to skin a cat and can't argue with what worked,
Was it necessary to use a tool to ensure the seal in the timing cover was centered around the harmonic balancer before tightening the timing gear cover to the engine?
I did not remove my timing cover - wasn't any need to in my case
But I can certainly appreciate that the procedure you describe would indeed be valuable if the cover had been removed/loosened up.
