Here's the deal. I want to do a Woods 555 soon. I want to do my own install on it. I've heard that autozone will rent the bearing puller. Always heard it called a blind bearing puller. So I went to AutoZone to check on it before I order the cam. They don't have a blind bearing puller, but they've got a pilot bearing puller.

I don't want to get it tore down and then find out I can't pull the bearing. Does anyone have any info on AutoZones tool that will work?

I know I can buy one for about a hundred bucks, but if I can do it without spending that, I'll have a hundred bucks more to spend on the big bore kit.

Anybody that has any insight on this, I would love to hear it.

Thanks

 

I think that is a puller for a pilot bearing in a flywheel. Best thing to do is take the new bearing to them and see if the puller will fit.

 

get the puller from gary beatty>bettygw@sbcgolbac.net,after use than sell it in the calassified here,get most of your money back and the bearings are put in the right depth.might end up costing you 10 bucks.MHO

 

Don't f!@k around with a generic tool. If you screw it up you'll be tearing the entire motor apart to retrieve the destroyed bearing parts from your bottom end.

Do what rdc401 suggested. Its what I did and I only lost a small amount of loot. I bought mine from George's Garage so I lost a little more but the premise is the same

 

Sounds like we need to get a few folks together, chip in to buy one of the good bearing pullers and then have a cam install party! I'm wanting to do the same and the install looks very easy, as long as you have a good bearing puller. Maybe someone that has one will send you a PM to buy there used one and then you can sell it after your done with it (I might be in the market if you want to try me first)!

 

You definitely need the right puller go here it's worth the $100 not to mess up, you can install with old cam but get the puller..
I got a local shop to loan me one and I give him $20 for use..
http://www.georges-garage.com/tc_engine_2.htm

 

9 out 0f 10 times that I find myself in need of a special tool I'll simply make one. Changing my inner cam bearings were no exception.

It's been a few years since I did mine but if my memory serves me right I simply took a scrap piece of steel, ground a little hook or ledge on one end that would grab the bearing while clearing the flywheel (crankshaft), attached the other end to a slide hammer and pulled the bearings.