Heh... Yeah, Greg, that stunt with the compression gauge was pretty good. It's kind of amazing, the extents to which we'll go to outsmart ourselves sometimes. Reading that does make me feel a little better about making an idiot mistake, so thanks.
Oh - and thanks too for the reminder on the dowel+grease trick. I'd done that about 10 years ago when I did a motor swap on my little Toyota 4x4 pickup, but completely forgot about it. Worked well, as I recall.
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That was nasty. I got a pilot bearing puller but it didn't help because I'd pushed the bearing down hard against the shoulder in the cavity, and there wasn't enough bearing left for the puller to grip. Maybe if it had been a brand-new, really sharp Snap-On it would have worked, but not with the Princess Auto cheapie (that's going back this afternoon). And the grease-and-dowel trick didn't work for the same reason - no room behind the bearing for the grease to get into and push out from. So it was the die grinder and cold chisels, but the b@st@rd's out.
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Topic: Please help this clueless n00b (Grand Cherokee 4.0) (Read 4135 times)