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02-17-2013, 10:46 AM #1
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Pilot bearing removel?
Getting ready in a few weeks to put in a new Ls7 clutch and have been doing some reading on install and gathering parts and tools.
Any help on the best way to remove the pilot bearing, was reading over on Tech and some Vette forms that a Blind Hole Puller set is the best tool to remove the bearing
Anyone have any info or tools used?
No interest in using grease, bread, or paper smashed in to force it out, sounds like trouble to me.....
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02-18-2013, 08:05 AM #2
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02-18-2013, 09:44 AM #3
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One more thing to add to this question, may sound dumb but about how much clutch fluid is needed when changing fluid?
I have the factory service manual and it tells the capacities of almost everything but only list's DOT3 fluid. Fluid I'm using comes in a12oz bottle...searched all over still nothing!
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Thanks sound about right from other reads
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02-18-2013, 12:13 PM #4
I have had success using seal pullers on pilot bearings.
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02-18-2013, 01:30 PM #5
Not sure on your question about "how much", but here are some helpful threads:
http://www.ls1.com/forums/f65/having...clutch-166272/
http://www.ls1.com/forums/f6/general...ervals-151571/
http://www.ls1.com/forums/f65/how-bl...ty-vac-124254/
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02-18-2013, 02:33 PM #6
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02-18-2013, 02:40 PM #7
As I mentioned, not sure on your question of how much
Boost gets you laid, unless your name is Jon.
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02-18-2013, 02:45 PM #8
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I'm not dsure exactly how much but I can tell you, it holds less than that small bottle of fluid so not much. however you will waste a lot of it bleeding. I just bought the larger container and had a little left over after bleeding, even with starting over couple times
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02-18-2013, 04:03 PM #9
If you want to measure how much you use, I'll add it to my sticky as a guesstimate.
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02-19-2013, 11:30 AM #10
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02-19-2013, 11:31 AM #11
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04-24-2013, 09:23 PM #12
My pilot bearing was a "worse case scenario." I broke the teeth off the puller that I had rented.
I ended up using a Dremel with a Tungsten Carbide bit (bit 9901) to grind out two spots at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock and it popped right out. I didn't have to cut it all the way through- just cut it most of the way through and then when I hit it with a new puller I was able to split it in half. Takes a steady hand and some patience.2000 Pontiac Firehawk #0041 of 742
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04-27-2013, 06:59 PM #13
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Hope I don't run in to that! With winter hanging on so long up here and now the painter on my new hood taking his sweet time I'm still waiting to tear into the clutch. Hopefully soon, thanks for the input, don't want to use it but if need be I will have the upper hand
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04-29-2013, 09:35 PM #14
Your best bet is to be prepared for anything- best or worse case. Have your puller ready but go ahead and have the dremel out on the work bench. Be careful and don't push the puller too far into the hole- there is a freeze plug behind it that can be pushed in too far. Go ahead and get a rear main seal set and swap it out while you've got it apart. Those are the best bits of advice I can give you having put the LS7 clutch in my 'Hawk back in 2010. The only real difficulty was the pilot bearing, other than that it all went in easily.
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