You must take the bellhousing off of the tranny to
replace the input shaft.  Very easy to do.  Once the
tranny is out, it will take about 20 minutes.

Z

--- Dart 330 <dart330@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> There is no grinding noise at any time or I would
> have stopped driving the
> van. How much should it cost to have the pilot
> bearing replaced? If the
> input shaft is chewed up can that be replaced
> without dismantling the
> transmission? Is there any way to test for this
> besides removing the tranny?
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan
>
> >Do you have a grinding noise when the transmission
> is in gear and the
> >clutch is pushed in?  If so, it's the pilot
> bearing.  I had those same
> >symptoms on my '75 bus when the pilot bearing was
> on its way out.
> >Eventually it seized and I couldn't disengage at
> all.  I've heard these
> >can chew up the end of the input shaft when they
> fail.
>
> >Yes, this is exactly what happened to my '88 a few
> years back. Came on
> >fairly suddenly though, passing through Hwy 99
> enroute to Duffy Lake. Not
> >a nice road to have clutch problems on... Made it
> home have to start in 1st
> >gear many times, but after 150kms the input shaft
> was toast. Papers from
> >PO noted an earlier pilot bearing failure, and
> shaft was *not* replaced, so
> >I
> >suspect once the shaft is chewed up, it will
> continue to eat pilot
> >bearings...
> >I have the trans out now for a clutch/main seal
> fix, and the new PB and
> >input shaft look like new still.
>
>
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