Pilot bushing Bearing Removal need suggestions
:nws: :wtf: I just recently removed t-56 trans out of my 00 SS for LS7 clutch upgrade. I'm having one hell of a time with the pilot bearing bushing removal. I don't have a removal tool. Hanes suggests filling the hole in back of the bearing with heavy grease and either find a close fitting socket with extension or wood dowel as close fitting to the inside diameter of the bearing. Place the the dowel or socket inside the bearing and beat on it with a BFH. The grease acts like hydraulic pressure on the bearing forcing it out??? Well, That f%^kn bearing got real hot, hot enough to turn the end of the input shaft blue! That Aluminum bell housing seemed welded to the guide pins on the block. Talk about a fried clutch.........nothing but steel rivets grinding into the pressure plate and flywheel. When I burn a stock clutch I burn a stock Clutch! yeah I know :givesaf: Need advice on removal methods any best ways to remove this Bitch with a capital C! Thanks