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This is a neat trick worth passing along. If you have a blind bushing or bearing that needs to be pulled, you can do it nice and clean without using a puller or by pushing grease into the hole (like we often do to pull a caliper piston).
My 1956 Chris Craft engine uses a raw water pump that is a gear pump rather than a rubber impeller pump. There are 3 bronze bushings in the pump. Two are accessible from the housing end when it is pulled off the pump. But the third one is buried in the main housing.
I do not have a bearing or bushing puller. So.....the next best thing is....BREAD! :hihihi:
I'm not kidding! You fill the bushing with bread (gluten free of course). :smilie_happy:
Then, take a bolt that fits the hole, wrap the bolt with electrical tape to make a tight fit and hammer the bolt into the bushing. The bread becomes a hydraulic press!
My 1956 Chris Craft engine uses a raw water pump that is a gear pump rather than a rubber impeller pump. There are 3 bronze bushings in the pump. Two are accessible from the housing end when it is pulled off the pump. But the third one is buried in the main housing.
I do not have a bearing or bushing puller. So.....the next best thing is....BREAD! :hihihi:
I'm not kidding! You fill the bushing with bread (gluten free of course). :smilie_happy:
Then, take a bolt that fits the hole, wrap the bolt with electrical tape to make a tight fit and hammer the bolt into the bushing. The bread becomes a hydraulic press!