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Subject:Re: Pilot Bearing
From:Mark Dearing
Date:Wed, 8 May 2013 11:29:18 -0400

this is how my blind bearing puller works with a slide hammer. nice thing
about blind bearing puller is that it expands behind the race  later   mark
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In a message dated 5/8/2013 10:46:08 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
tjhannink@YAHOO.COM writes:

I took  an old, large flat blade screwdriver, bent the tip over 90-degrees
making a  1/8" lip. Slid a large socket over the shaft of the screwdriver,
hooked the  bearing with the screwdriver tip and slapped the socket into the
screwdriver  handle (think slide hammer) until I got the bearing moving.

The  roller bearings had fallen out of mine and were wedging between the
flywheel  and the rear main seal causing a big oil  leak.