November 8, 200619 yr Is it possible to remove EA81 wrist pins without a slide hammer? I don't have one, but need to get them out.
November 8, 200619 yr Yeah - you can make a hook out of some thin bar stock and pull them out. I have a tool made by Shadow (he's not around much anymore on this board) that uses a split-arbor device to grab them and pull them out. It's an interesting device, but you need at least a small lathe and mill to make one.... Make your hook with a bend in the end that you can use a claw hammer on to "lever" the pins out. GD
November 8, 200619 yr Author Make your hook with a bend in the end that you can use a claw hammer on to "lever" the pins out. GD I'll give that one a try. Thank you SOOOO much!!
November 8, 200619 yr You can make an uber-simple slide hammer from a piece of 3/8" threaded rod and a piece of 1/2" sch40 pipe, along with a couple nuts. It's the best way to pull them, I've tried to pull them by pressure before, and you really do need that -hit- from a slide hammer to get past the coked-on oil crud.
November 8, 200619 yr Author Well the claw hammer method was a bust for me. I guess I'll try to borrow a slide hammer from Schucks or something.
November 8, 200619 yr Make your hook rod long enough that you can give it a whack with a hammer. Make it 10 feet long, and have a friend hold one end, and you can hammer on the other end :-p GD
November 9, 200619 yr If all else fails split the block, tilt the halves as wide as they can on each side and remove 2 rods at a time. Then remove the pistons with the rod halves disconnected from the crank.
November 9, 200619 yr If all else fails split the block, tilt the halves as wide as they can on each side and remove 2 rods at a time. Then remove the pistons with the rod halves disconnected from the crank. Did that for my old block to recycle it. No too bad, but either count on replacing the lifters, or keep close track of them, since they like to fall out of the case once it's split.
November 9, 200619 yr You don't even need a slide hammer. Just make your "grabber tool" out of a long bolt with a nut and a big washer on it that are positioned so you can pry it out, pushing against the block.
November 9, 200619 yr Author If all else fails split the block, tilt the halves as wide as they can on each side and remove 2 rods at a time. Then remove the pistons with the rod halves disconnected from the crank. Thats what I ended up doing, and it worked. Now to do the same to my EA71! WooHoo!!
June 28, 20196 yr Author 14 hours ago, Kla said: Dent puller with hook end worked for me. 13 years later! Necro-bump!
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