Can't remove pilot bearing

[Happy Jim]

I drilled mine out as close as I dared then finished it off with a tiny cold chisel- bit brutal but worked (LS1)

Rgds
Jim

[leochas232]

I used grease and the hydraulic method to get mine out of an LS3.
Didn't notice any core plug??

[dgosumo]

Don’t use the bread/grease trick on an LS, there’s a core freeze plug behind it, if it goes wrong you end up pushing the plug into the block......not a good thing!

An oil plug in the end of the crankshaft?

[Pilch]

Hello again everyone.....

Success - it came out using a £10 Ebay puller but I had to take the puller fingers off by grinding off the pins which hold them in so that the fingers could be inserted into the bearing one at a time. The force required bent the puller cross bar! Big relief though - I thought I was going to have to grind it out.

I also considered using a rawl bolt - that was going to be my next move. Then the grinder if that failed.

Some photos to show the puller etc. attached.

Also a link to a web page that shows the oil plug.
https://americanpowertrain.com/gm-ls...ing-tech-info/

Thanks guys for your helpful suggestions.

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[ChrisP]

Well done, nice when these things work out