Date:         Tue, 13 May 2003 09:40:35 -0400
Reply-To:     David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
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From:         David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
Subject:      Re: Pilot Bearing Removal?
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On Tue, 13 May 2003, George Goff wrote:

> << Would it be possible to see a step by step photo shoot of this method? I'm
> kinda slow in some ways and might need some sort of visual guidence. Um Kay?
> >>
>
> I'm sorry, but I have two beautiful kids who haven't been cute for years.
> When they were cute, I took thousands of pictures of them which are now
> moldering in a closet and cluttering up my life.  I just don't have the
> fortitude to take another snapshot.
>
> Simply put, pack the hole full of grease and cork it with a dowel of some
> sort.

The idea here, to perhaps clarify, is that when you whack the dowel you're
applying pressure to the grease.  A lot of it, suddenly.  The grease has
nowhere to go, so it forces the bearing out.  It's really pretty simple,
and quite clever.  I wonder who the first guy to think of this was?


David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si