I've been using this method to remove bearings from blind holes in transfer cases. I like the bread idea, gonna try that. another good method for pilot bushings is a tap; just screw it in until it bottoms out and then either continue screwing in the tap or use a screw, it's a good method for the stubborn ones.

Nicely done! Nice clear visuals, and you explained both the specific technique and the general principle behind it without a whole lot of extra palaver.

Yow I was looking at this video and saying bread like for really that can't be real and just so happen I had some coconut bread in my truck so I decided to try it and to behold the thing came Out thanks man that's really a big help keep the information coming

Great tip ,thanks

Been using grease for that since the sixties

How about using a proper size tap. Thread it in and when it bottoms in the hole it keep turning and it will pull the bushing out. Done it many times.

Use a price of bread without the crust,works well and no mess

can I suggest to save time spent introducing thick grease into the bush...give a three year old child a pot of peanut butter and they will have that filled in half the time.!! CD slots old VHS tape decks etc as an example!

put the grease in with a grease gun and start from the back ,,, been doing it that way for forty years

Grease messy You can use wet paper instead of grease.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

Whats the difference between the pilot converter and the pilot bushing as far as where it goes. I seemed to have had my pilot converter pop out from the bearing but seems slightly too big to push back in.....long story short when i removed my crankshaft from the block i heard something fall...it appears to have been the pilot converter (i only heard it fall...i didnt actually see it)...after lots of reseach what this part even was...it looks like it popped out in front and out through the bearing (if thats even possible)

I have a pilot bushing I'm trying to remove from a chevy 350. The car had an automatic when I got it. The pilot bushing has probably been in there for 30 years. It appears that the metal flakes in the bushing may have rusted to the housing. Someone may have tried to pull it in the past also, as the inner hole is more of an oval than round. I tried the hydraulic method. Because the opening is oval, there is no way to build hydraulic pressure. I've also tried many different types of pilot bearing/bushing pullers. I either end up breaking them, chipping pieces off the bottom of the pilot bushing when they slip off, or nothing happens. Last one I tried is an expanding slide-hammer type that opens a circular shaped ledge at the rear after inserting. Even this wouldn't make it budge. Also tried heating until red hot, and the "bread" method.

Bread trick also works

Thanks!

Awesome thank you

Use small pieces of candle wax and no mess created .

When your hammering what is the bolt hitting on the other end anything that can be damaged from the heavy blows ?

what if the other side is hollow? I need to remove a stuck needle bearing inside a motorcycle swing arm. been lubing it, whacking it with a hammer. won't budge.

Fuck that mess. Use bread. It acts like a fluid but without all the nastiness. You also don't need a perfect fitting tool with an o ring. Just find a bolt or rod or whatever that fits the hole as close as possible. Use a little tape to make up the difference (doesn't need a perfect seal because the bread makes a muck thicker fluid). A few good whacks with a decent hammer and she's out and you only have a few crumbs and a bread plug to clean up.

Bread man....Bread.....just watched a guy use bread instead of grease......Less mess but out in a few minutes.....

wet toilet paper does just as a good job like the grease

You couldn’t get mine out this way. I couldn’t even get the remains out with the proper tool. I had to resort to carving an open spot with a dremel tool.

Grease gun makes this a lot easier

Loaf bread is another way to remove pilot bearing🐃

i used paper on this instead of grease.

Didn't work for me!!!NEXT SUGGESTION PLEASE

That is not a pilot Bush and that's a pilot bearing I need to know how to do a pilot bushing thank you