Bread. Soft bread. No toast or dry stale bread or bagels. No waffles or pancakes. Well, pancakes might work. I read this on a forum and recently tried it to see how well it works. My bread was dry. I should have added some water. Other methods of removing a pilot bushing abound. Do NOT use this method on an LS engine or you will push some sort of important part (a cap or something) on the end of the crankshaft into a place it shouldn’t be. Stuff that can be used instead of soft bread include: Damp paper towels Damp toilet paper Bearing grease Play-Doh Bearing removal tool loaned from your FLAPS Soft putty
But soft bread DOES WORK. It leaves a few crumbs but no messy grease to wipe up and it doesn’t come shooting out if the ID of the bushing is slightly larger than your driving tool.
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Buy a can of cheap refrigerated biscuits. Use one to remove the pilot bushing, bake the rest of them, and make a big pan of sausage gravy. Enjoy! A simpler, less cholesterol-unfriendly method is to find a threading tap that will engage the ID of the bushing and simply screw it in with a crescent wrench. when the tap bottoms in the crankshaft counterbore, keep turning. The bushing will climb the thread and come out with virtually no mess. It's not like you're going to worry about damaging the bushing, right? Jerry
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I know pancakes work because that is what I used. I saw the hint about using bread, but I didn’t have any in the house. So pancakes for breakfast and saved 2 for the bushing. Worked like a champ, and easy clean up.
Once I discovered the threading tap trick, all the other options got abandoned. I believe it's a 5/8" thread that works right on a stovebolt bushing. Round the end of the tap with a bench grinder to keep any sharp edges from digging into the nottom of the counterbore in the crankshaft. That doesn't prevent the tap from working for it's original purpose of cutting threads, as it only takes a tiny bit of corner-rounding to work well.
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Put maple syrup on the pancakes for easier bushing removal.
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