[Bill Pritchard]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SS427</div><div class="ubbcode-body">An easy way to get the bushing out, insert grease behind the bushing and a little around an old input shaft on the bearing surface if you have one. Insert the shaft all the way in and using a rubber mallet, hit it a few times and the hydraulics will push the bushing right out. Works great. </div></div>

Outstanding idea, Rick, thank you very much. I do indeed have an old Muncie input shaft that I have had laying around for 30 years or more, and I finally get to put it to good use! I was planning to use it for the clutch installation anyway.

As Rick P. says, he installed a new pilot bushing when he replaced the clutch last fall, and it doesn't have 30 miles on it, so I seriously doubt that there are any issues with it.....but they are so cheap and relatively easy to replace that I think I would be foolish to NOT do so.


Thanks again for all the helpful advice here, guys.....as Sam indicates, this place rocks!!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/youguysrock.gif[/img]