Ok im changing my first clutch i need to know how to remove and install the pilot bearing and also if i should grease the polit bearing and the throwout bearing shaft and or the input shaft splines
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Help Pilot bearing and other clutch help...
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You can't remove the pilot bushing. Not w/o the special little tool from Nissan. Luckily I'm really good friends with the service department at my local Nissan dealership and the service manager let me borrow it. Also, go easy with the grease. Going to heavy with that stuff is a good way to ruin a brand new clutch real quick. I just did this a week ago, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask.
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KS_Honda_Killer wrote:You can't remove the pilot bushing. Not w/o the special little tool from Nissan.
The tool makes life easier, but there are also other tricks to getting a pilot bushing out. I suspect it is a bushing you are trying to remove (pilot bearings are available from NISMO).
Three methods of getting the bushing out:
1. Use an old input shaft, or brass rod turned down to the correct diameter to fit into the bushing. Toss a can of grease into the fridge (nice and thick). Pack the back of the bushing full of the chilled grease. use a 3/8" wooden rod (whatever) and keep packing it in so there is no air. Now put the metal rod into the bush and WHACK it with a hammer. Hydraulic action will force the bushing out. Takes me about 5 minutes.
Yes, you can use a wooden dowel just about the same size. Used to be able to find hardwood dowels, that could withstand the pounding... helps to soak it in water to swell the wood the night before you need it.2. With a METAL TAP that is right size, you cut THREADS into the bushing. I seem to think I had a 5/8" tap... threads where cut INTO the bushing only (had the new one with me, compared ID and OD to the tap). Once threaded with a bottoming tap, dropped in a ball bearing and used a threaded a bolt into the bushing... forced the bushing out. Note crank was out at the time, so this was the easiest way to remove the old bushing.
3. With a broken hacksaw blade, carefully sliced into the bushing. Two cuts about 1/4" apart, ALMOST all the way through the bushing. Use a small chisel to cut out the 1/4" section. Seemed like it took hours, but did the job.
Favorite is #1, in all three cases wear GOGGLES. A trip to the ER to get metal out of your eye is not fun. Hint, for brass pieces they have to go digging for them... for steel the doc can use a magnet to get the pieces to the surface. Looking at your car on jack stands for a week when wearing a stupind patch on your eye is reminder to wear safety google.
Good luck,
Tom
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KS_Honda_Killer wrote:I stand corrected. You are the shiznit. I bow down to you and your infinite creativity!
You're welcome.... then again if you read my post on how to remove that #$%^! Skyline steering wheel from a front clip, you'll think I'm the worst mechanical idiot you've come across. :rolleyes
Tom
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240_Keyy wrote:Hey Tom, you ever run Lime Creek? I think me and some of the Houston 4AGE guys are going to do it in june after I finish my swap.
Sorry, what is Lime Creek? I showed up to a couple of Autox events around Austin some years back, but haven't been to a SoloII or any Autox in ages? Uh, just realized Lime Creek might be a 1/4 mile... sorry, but supply the details. Would be cool to run for fun (I used to run Pro Rally's, but am the first to admit my reflexes are too slow on the light tree!) Still nice to get a timing slip to see what a "stock RB20DET w/ auto" would do (nice base point).
Tom
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240_Keyy wrote:I was talking about Lime Creek Road in Round Rock. It is all twisty and stuff, it's fun
You got me with that name. Lime Rock is in Round Rock West
From the description it sounds like Hairy Man Rd // Brushy Creek Rd. Off Sam Bass Rd. Fun road, but use extreme caution on it. Sorry, it is getting too well known for the number of fatal accidents on it.
Tom