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I was reading my shop manual and it says that I need a special pilot bearing retainer tool to remove the retainer to get at the pilot bearing on my 216. I know there has to be a way to remove the retainer and bearing without the tool and I am looking for suggestions! My 47 is in dire need of a new clutch. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

You might have a nearby auto parts store that will rent/lend a tool like this?

I bought one and have used it three times (on three different trucks). It works real nicely.

However, I now have a clutch gear (which can be used with grease or mushed-toilet-paper/grease to "push" out that bearing/bushing).

$20? Buy it. 1 use will pay for itself..

I don't see a reference to a retainer for the clutch pilot bushing in the shop manual. It shows a screw-in style puller that cuts threads into the bushing and a yoke to pull the center threaded piece and the bushing out of the flywheel. Tim's suggestion may work well, or a collet type that expands to grab the bushing and pull it out with a slide hammer. Or you could use something like this that uses a grease gun to push the bushing out with hydraulic pressure.

Nice tool, Kevin (nothing personal)

Get a pillsbury biquit out of the dairy case at the store, pull a piece off and stuff in the pilot bushing put a wooden dowl pin in and hit with a hammer. Bushing removed no greasy mess to clean up.

LOL, that would work too. I've heard of guys using a slice of bread, moistened a bit with water for the same trick. No need to run to the store for the biscuit dough.

Grease or a biscuit will work and a friend used to keep kid's modeling clay in his repair shop for the same purpose. He claimed the modeling clay was the best option by far and it was always handy. When it got too dirty, he'd discard it and spend 50 cents on a new pack.

Some early engines had a roller bearing with a stamped steel retainer.
I think that is what he is taking about.
I would pry the retainer out with any tool that will work, and replace the setup with a brass style bushing.

Dave, I dimly recall the use of the term oilite-type sintered bronze for that bushing?

Check out the nice removal tool in that article.

Do like HRL says, run the appropriate size(over bore size) tap in, will bottom out and pull bushing out.

Ed

This is the bearing and retainer used from late 1939 to 1946.
Most have been replaced with a bushing by now.