I’m sure this has been discussed a million times but I could just use a little reassurance that I’m not destroying my crankshaft. The photo shows my pilot bearing after attacking it with the rented Advance Auto Parts tool. The tool just keeps sliding past the guts in the bearing and isn’t pulling anything out. In the back of the bearing in my pic you see something that is beaten up and oblonged. That is just part of the bearing correct? I’m not damaging some crucial part of the crankshaft I don’t think, but I just want to be sure before I start going psycho beast mode on this thing. I believe what I have to do is start chiseling away the inner guts of the bearing until I have nothing left but the outer casing, right? Then I need to either try the removal tool again and catch the two notches at the back of the bearing casing, or it’s going to be the bread and socket trick. I have some Kroil I’m going to try and seep into the outer edges of the bearing where it contacts the crankshaft.
Am I doing anything wrong? I’ve never removed a pilot bearing before.
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