Pilot bearing removal using paper and water.
Tear up a sheet of old newspaper and get it wet.
Find a socket or round stock that will slide easily into your pilot bearing. I used a 1/2 inch deep socket and placed it onto an extension. If you use a socket you have to stop the paper from going into it, so place a bolt in the end.
Start packing some of the wet paper into the bearing until full.
Place your socket with bolt, round stock or whatever your gonna use into the bearing.
Pack the paper by hitting the end of your extension with a hammer.
Take it out and put some more wet paper in there ... Pack it again with the hammer.
Continue this process and the paper will start pushing the bearing out! The more you pack the more it comes until it falls right out.
In my case, the half inch socket was a bit too small and metric to big. Once the wet paper started working it's way around the socket I put a penny in there. Perfect, that sealed it up nice and the bearing came on out.
If you have to go this route, get as much paper packed in first or you won't have enough behind the penny to push the bearing out and I imagine it would be a pain in the arse to get the penny out before the bearing to add more paper!
Hopefully this will help someone doing a pilot bearing for their first time ... It sure helped me.
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Note: A pilot bearing removal tool would be the way to go, I did not want to fork out the 30 bucks to only use once or so.
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