There's no need to remove the flywheel to pull the pilot bearing in a
diesel. You do have to pull it to get to the mainseal flange, as Mike
says.

Before the five-speed went out in my diesel, I noticed that when in
neutral the car had a strong tendency to creep forward.

Jim

On Jun 22, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Mike Collum wrote:

> Barb,
>
> This sure sounds like your pilot bearing is seizing on the
> transmission's input shaft.  It's located in the crankshaft and is
> between the flywheel and the engine (basically).
>
> To replace the pilot bearing, the transmission has to be pulled, and
> the
> clutch and flywheel removed.  Then the engine mainseal can be pulled
> ...
> the pilot bearing (or what's left of it) pulled and replaced.  Of
> course, you would then put a new mainseal in ... inspect the
> transmission input shaft to see if it needs replacement or can be
> smoothed up and reused.
>
> While the clutch is out ... it might be a good time to replace the
> clutch disk and throwout bearing.
>
> Now lets sit back and see what the other listmembers have to say.
>
> Mike
>
> Barb Cotton wrote:
>> Friday when I was running errands in town, I was having trouble
>> finding gears when downshifting, shifter just felt stiff, and I
>> thought I needed to get that looked at. By the time I got to the
>> grocery store, I almost ran into someone because even tho the clutch
>> was all the way in, I was still in gear. Got it stopped, restarted,
>> couldn't get it in any gear, it just ground. Tried to start it in
>> gear with the clutch in, and it jumped. Called my friendly AAA guy,
>> he started it in neutral, couldn't get it in gear after starting.
>> Then he started it while in reverse so he could get it out of the
>> parking place and onto the truck, and after jerking backwards out of
>> the parking space, the clutch, shifter, etc all worked fine. He towed
>> it to the shop, and they can't figure out what the problem was as now
>> it all works fine. Is there anything I should tell them to look for
>> before I take the van home so hopefully it doesn't happen again??
>>
>>
>> Barb
>> 83 Westy
>>
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