Believe It Or Not, This Bread Trick Gets The Pilot Bearing Off Every Time


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Mechanics and technicians all have some strange techniques and tools which they swear by, but this helpful trick is possibly among the strangest. If you've ever struggled to extract the pilot bearing from your wheel hub before, here's something you may want to try. By using clumps of bread and stuffing them into the bearing, then using your pilot bearing puller to force the bread behind the bearing, the expansion of the bread eases the bearing out of place until it pops right off. Who knew?