I taught this to my teenage son who later on worked for a big pump company. Somehow they came across a blind hole bushing deep in a pump. He asked the boss for a loaf of bread and they thought he was nuts. He finally got them convinced and they got him the bread. He handed them the bushing and ate the rest of the bread. Walked away smiling. They had been paying a guy to come over and extract them for years. The guy was on vacation this time. My son was 19 and felt like a million bucks. 😁
1965 I went to Lincoln Speedway in Abbotstown, Pa with Charley Weirman '55 Chevy late model crew. It was running a 327 and took a front end hit resulting in a minor top tank seam radiator leak. The crew chief told me to run to the refreshment stand and buy a pack of unopened hot dog rolls. They put 3 rolls in the radiator, it was steaming after the feature but he finished 5th!
Not a mechanic trick, but I’ve used a white bread plug to stop water dripping long enough to get a good solder joint on a T-fitting copper water line. It eventually dissolves in the water after you get that nice shiny solder joint. This was to replace a crummy piercing fitting that had too low flow rate to keep the ice maker from repeatedly freezing up.
Steve I've always placed wheel bearings in a sandwich bags and then added wheel bearing grease to the bag. You can squeeze the grease into the nooks and crannies of the bearing by squeezing the outside of the bag keeping your hands cleaner. I actually think the pressure from the bag while being squeezed gets the grease in more areas of the bearing. Love your channel. Amazing videos!! Toby
Good idea,,,,I always end up with more grease on me then in the bearing! Hey, Just keep a bag full of grease in the top of the tool box and use it over and over. 😁
I've used the ziplock bearing packing trick many times, from the tiniest bearings to the biggest! But I eventually broke down a few years ago and got a Lisle grease press (the red and clear plastic one), and while it only works on normal automotive to small industrial sized bearings, it is worth every penny. The bag trick works for 1 or 2, any more than that you'll have a claw hand from all the repetitive folding and pressing to grease a bunch of bearings! Finally broke down and bought one doing the bearings on an 84' Chevy 1500 sfa (pretty much full maintenance/fix on the entire driveline), and don't regret it!
If you have a brake caliper with a stuck piston in it you can remove the caliper and install a grease nipple in the inlet hole. Then you can push the piston out in a controlled way with the grease gun. Less terrifying then compressed air😁
A v e demonstrated with very similar technique using shop rags soaked with oil. Blew my mind first time I saw it. Has been a very helpful trick to remember
We recently used bar soap to remove some bushings that were in a housing of a combine corn head gearbox. Worked exactly the same way and the Irish Spring made everything smell nice. :) It is definitely less messy than grease, and probably less messy than breadcrumbs everywhere (unless you have a four legged vacuum in the shop).
Hi Steve and Elizabeth, I had good success using thick wheel bearing grease. Always worked when the bearing puller wouldn't fit in the bore of the center bushing. Hope the family stays safe.
Ah the memories. Im 62 and we did this quite a bit back in the 70's on our 4 speed motor head cars and a few pickups when changing clutches, except we used heavy grease as you said. We used to tape the end of the rod or an old input shaft with some electrical tape to help the "hydraulic seal" Same results as long as you have the right size rod some thick grease or the correct factory shop manual approved bread and a good hammer - lol.
Have seen that before with grease and pieces of a rag. This is the first time with bread. Great tip Steve. You can always learn something from your experience.
Another cool bread trick: Repairing copper plumbing pipe can be a problem if there is any water in the line. Can't sweat on any fittings if even a tiny amount of water is sucking heat away. So pack the pipe with bread to dam the water, then sweat on the fittings. When you turn the water back on the bread will dissolve. Just remember to remove the screens on the faucets while you clear the line of bread.
I used fiber grease (wheel bearing grease) to do the same job. Mopars and Ramblers had a light bulb down in between the push buttons that were used to select automatic transmission gear range. The service writer gave them to me because the procedure was to get at the bulb from the back side of the selector box at the underside of the dashboard. Others took an hour to do it. In five minutes, I took off the face plate, and pushed a piece of hose in between the buttons over the bulb. The bulb was pushed into the socket and twisting the hose the bulb was released. It came out in the hose and the new bulb went back in to the socket the same way. I kept a short hose on a pencil in my shirt pocket. For a long time, no one knew how I was doing it so quick. Bad, stuck dowel pin in a blind hole. drill a hole through the length of of the pin, tap it and install a grease fitting. Use the grease gun to pressurize the area behind the pin. It jacks the dowel pin straight out. Broken-off stainless steel exhaust manifold studs in an aluminum cylinder head, in chassis Use 90 degree angle head drill. Center punch, drill using bit from set of SPLINED easy out (Snap-on or Rigid). Pack the wax from a candle into the hole. Heat the broken stud to cause the wax and wick up the threads of the stud from the inside. Allow time to cool. Drive the SPLINED easy-out into the hole, place the matching splined nut onto the easy-out. Turns out smoothly most times. Many Dana (and other) differential use a lock bolt to keep the cross shaft in the spiders from coming out of the ring gear carrier. The bolt has a dowel below the threads. Very frequently, the bolt fractures and cracks off at the lower thread leaving the pin end in the cross shaft. The broken off pin can be remove from the carrier in chassis by making a drill bushing from the broken off head of the bolt. Drill a 1/8" hole through it. Using it and the 12"long carbide 1/8" drill you bought from McMaster-Carr, Drill into the dowel pin remaining in the carrier. Drive the 1/8" splines easy-out into the drilled hole, place the splined nut and turn out the remnant.
Working in an engine reconditioning department of a British car manufacturer during my apprenticeship, they always used bearing grease and a rod machined a nominal size fit. this used to work every time even though the bearing would be worn. You're basically hydraulic pressing it out. Using grease leaves no chance of contamination and allows the new one to go in easier without needing to thoroughly clean the hole out.
Back in the 70's when I was in the diesel shop, I just used grease. When I put a tow truck clutch in my F250, out came the tube of EP2. Didn't have to waste part of my lunch doing it.😱🤣😎 Best wishes from the far North.
Back in high school our shop teacher showed us the grease trick for removing the pilot bushing. It is messy. Thanks for sharing the bread trick. It definitely is a lot cleaner. I never would have thought of it.
Have used bread to remove pilot bushings. Also when you're trying to solder copper water lines and you still have water leaking. Shove a piece of bread down the pipe. It would stop the water long enough to solder your fitting on there. And then open the pipe and it will come out straight out
We did the same thing back in the 1960's when I worked at Bardons & Oliver machine Co. To remove the hardened bushings in turret lathe square turrets, we used oil and cotton waste on a hydraulic press, it's amazing when you see the bushing pop up!
When we were younger and had to pull the rear axle on a car, we would take a log chain and fasten one end of the chain to the axle using the wheel lugs and lug nuts on a couple of the lugs and grabbing the log chain about 4 feet back and snap it back, just like trying to crack a whip. It might take a couple try’s but it always did the job when we didn’t have a slide hammer to get them out. One nice thing about getting older is the tools that you accumulate, and yes, I now own a slide hammer.
Hi Steve, What a neat trick! I've used grease in the past for pilot bushing removal but, like you said, it is messy. Thanks for the surprise, Monday video! -mike
Hello Steve, I have done this trick for years but I always have used paper cut up in small pieces and soaked in water. After bearing is out all you have left is a hard paper puck. Thanks for sharing.
Best sick day I’ve ever taken smh been fighting a abscessed tooth all weekend took today because the antibiotics got me a bit weak kneed but figured I’d be bored out of my mind can’t piddle in the shop so just a TH-cam day
I have used this one myself a few times. I normally just go for the slide hammer though as it tends to be faster and 99 times out of 100 if I pull a bearing out of something I won’t be putting it back.
I first saw this trick on roadkill, admittedly with bar soap in the parking lot of some racetrack. I'm glad I saw it as I recently had a blind bearing on my motorbike my puller wouldn't fit
Steve, I have used bread for another fix. It is in the plumbing trade. When I am trying to do a repair to leaking copper pipe. I cut the pipe open and want to solder a new fitting in. The water that is in the pipe will not let the pipe get hot enough to solder. But if you fill the pipe with bread and pack it in then the water will be kept away from the area that I am trying to solder. After the connection is finished I simply open the water supply again and safely flush the bread out of the pipe. The repair is now complete. It works great! This is particularly helpful when the repair is being made at a low point in the pipe run. No mater how you try to drain the line out the water always seems to keep coming down to the place you want to solder. If there is water in the pipe you can never get it to solder.
Neat ! I have always used EP2 grease for these and a bolt with the threads cut off to do this. Once all I had was Vaseline that I put in the freezer. The freezer works best on both. I think candle wax would work well too.
Hi Steve and Elizabeth ☺ I've used the grease trick for years, but bread , that's a new one for me. Peanut butter always goes well on bread, but not sure if you'd gain anything on this job, lol, thanks for the video, stay safe, best wishe's to all, Stuart Uk.
Used to pack hole full of grease and whittle a handle down or transmission shaft any old rod that fits into pilot bearing bushing and whack with a hammer. Pops right out.😁
I didn’t know about using bread but I have used grease and toilet paper. I did have one with an extra deep pocket behind the bearing, that at first had trapped air. I kept trying and worked out the air pockets. I can see how bread would have worked better. Thanks for sharing!
This is a great trick. I've used greasy rags to push the bearing out of an electric motor but the bread trick is better as it will flow easier. Thank you for sharing.
Bread, paper towels, grease, grease and paper towels, bar soap, crayons, clay, candles, plastic wrap, aluminum foil... Basically anything or any combination of things that will stay put in a horizontal hole, fluid enough to transfer hydraulic pressure, and can be hammered with a punch the same size as the ID of the bearing. You can achieve the right sized punch by wrapping electrical or duct tape around an existing punch.
Hey Steve, An old engineer once told to me - How to remove seized studs, deck caps that are rusted in. Build a shallow bund around the cap (Plasticine or the like) and then fill the area with Tabasco sauce. Leave for 24 hrs and simply remove the fitting. Works every time. Andy UK PS cant wait to see the truck fire up for the first time.
I had to check the date during the into to see if perhaps I had slept throught to April 1st. But, as soon as you put the first piece in the hole I knew what was going to happen, and learned something.
I worked for Miller Brewing Co. here in SoCa as a Operations Engineer and part of our job was to modify the Stainless-steel piping the product flowed through to add branch lines, instrument lines, pressure sensors, etc. The problem was all SS welds were to be sanitary welds and most of the time would use rice paper to seal the piping but when there's 40 ft of 4-inch pipe to seal off to retain the Argon gas it would take half a tanker truck load of gas, so I'd use loafs of white bread, as it sealed better than wheat, and shoved it in the pipe at the weld location making a small area for the purge gas and finished the weld. The brew house operators would then flow hot caustic through the pipe and dissolve the bread and sanitize the piping to resume operations.
I remember a guy once had a freeze plug pop on his old Mopar. It was so close to the firewall there was no way to hammer a new one in. He used some all thread, a couple nuts and sockets, and made a little jack to press against the firewall and push it in place.
I taught this to my teenage son who later on worked for a big pump company. Somehow they came across a blind hole bushing deep in a pump. He asked the boss for a loaf of bread and they thought he was nuts. He finally got them convinced and they got him the bread. He handed them the bushing and ate the rest of the bread. Walked away smiling. They had been paying a guy to come over and extract them for years. The guy was on vacation this time. My son was 19 and felt like a million bucks. 😁
Bloody hell !
Learn something new every day.
Cheers.
I always had play dough in my toolbox for pilot bushing removal when I worked at a dealership. It works the best I’ve ever used.👍
Thanks for the fantastic but crummy trick.keep up the great videos.
Wow! 3 videos in 3 days, in a row, thank you for taking the time to inform and entertain us.
1965 I went to Lincoln Speedway in Abbotstown, Pa with Charley Weirman '55 Chevy late model crew. It was running a 327 and took a front end hit resulting in a minor top tank seam radiator leak. The crew chief told me to run to the refreshment stand and buy a pack of unopened hot dog rolls. They put 3 rolls in the radiator, it was steaming after the feature but he finished 5th!
One of my favorite food for repair stories is of a guy using pancake batter to make a head gasket for a Harley.
Not a mechanic trick, but I’ve used a white bread plug to stop water dripping long enough to get a good solder joint on a T-fitting copper water line. It eventually dissolves in the water after you get that nice shiny solder joint. This was to replace a crummy piercing fitting that had too low flow rate to keep the ice maker from repeatedly freezing up.
My dad was a journeyman plumber and would use this trick frequently. Came to the comments to post the tip, but you beat me to it.
Also used that trick a lot too. That trick cost me a few lunch sandwiches....lol
Steve I've always placed wheel bearings in a sandwich bags and then added wheel bearing grease to the bag. You can squeeze the grease into the nooks and crannies of the bearing by squeezing the outside of the bag keeping your hands cleaner. I actually think the pressure from the bag while being squeezed gets the grease in more areas of the bearing.
Love your channel. Amazing videos!!
Toby
Good idea,,,,I always end up with more grease on me then in the bearing! Hey, Just keep a bag full of grease in the top of the tool box and use it over and over. 😁
Neat trick, Works for oiling prefilter foams as well
That is a great tip I never considered. Excellent !👍
I've used the ziplock bearing packing trick many times, from the tiniest bearings to the biggest! But I eventually broke down a few years ago and got a Lisle grease press (the red and clear plastic one), and while it only works on normal automotive to small industrial sized bearings, it is worth every penny. The bag trick works for 1 or 2, any more than that you'll have a claw hand from all the repetitive folding and pressing to grease a bunch of bearings! Finally broke down and bought one doing the bearings on an 84' Chevy 1500 sfa (pretty much full maintenance/fix on the entire driveline), and don't regret it!
I'm more impressed someone thought of using bread than it actually working. Thanks for sharing!
If you have a brake caliper with a stuck piston in it you can remove the caliper and install a grease nipple in the inlet hole. Then you can push the piston out in a controlled way with the grease gun. Less terrifying then compressed air😁
A v e demonstrated with very similar technique using shop rags soaked with oil. Blew my mind first time I saw it. Has been a very helpful trick to remember
My, my!! You sure raised a smile on my face.
*_STEVE SUMMERS:_*_ A man who challenges your pre-conceived notions about bread._ 😎
Man ,I seen it all now, I ain't never 🤤,I know old school tips tricks is priceless.
We recently used bar soap to remove some bushings that were in a housing of a combine corn head gearbox. Worked exactly the same way and the Irish Spring made everything smell nice. :) It is definitely less messy than grease, and probably less messy than breadcrumbs everywhere (unless you have a four legged vacuum in the shop).
Great tip. Thanks.
That is pretty slick. Thanks for sharing. When I was in college we were taught to use play-doh with a brass drift.
Best use of white bread I have seen.
Hi Steve and Elizabeth,
I had good success using thick wheel bearing grease. Always worked when the bearing puller wouldn't fit in the bore of the center bushing. Hope the family stays safe.
My dad taught me that trick about 60 years ago. Works every time! :-)
Ah the memories. Im 62 and we did this quite a bit back in the 70's on our 4 speed motor head cars and a few pickups when changing clutches, except we used heavy grease as you said. We used to tape the end of the rod or an old input shaft with some electrical tape to help the "hydraulic seal" Same results as long as you have the right size rod some thick grease or the correct factory shop manual approved bread and a good hammer - lol.
Wow, three vid's in a week. Its like Christmas. LOL. Enjoying the build. Ya'll keep up the good work.
I knew about grease and even butter. I've seen bread in pipes to solder. This is reality and its amazing. 2022 just got a bit better.
Thanks for your regular posts, LOVE seeing your content.
Have seen that before with grease and pieces of a rag. This is the first time with bread. Great tip Steve. You can always learn something from your experience.
Great tip. Professional mechanics can really make some dough with this one. Can’t wheat for the next video!
Pretty stale jokes. But then I’m kinda crusty.
All the punny guys loafing around commenting on Steve's video
You're so punny!
@@russellstarr9111 Just tryin' to have a little bun.
That’s absolutely amazing! I’d NEVER have thought of doing that!
Another cool bread trick: Repairing copper plumbing pipe can be a problem if there is any water in the line. Can't sweat on any fittings if even a tiny amount of water is sucking heat away. So pack the pipe with bread to dam the water, then sweat on the fittings. When you turn the water back on the bread will dissolve. Just remember to remove the screens on the faucets while you clear the line of bread.
Yep, awesome tool! I did a retrofitted a whole house in copper pipe while still living in it. It was lifesaver!
I used fiber grease (wheel bearing grease) to do the same job.
Mopars and Ramblers had a light bulb down in between the push buttons that were used to select automatic transmission gear range. The service writer gave them to me because the procedure was to get at the bulb from the back side of the selector box at the underside of the dashboard. Others took an hour to do it. In five minutes, I took off the face plate, and pushed a piece of hose in between the buttons over the bulb. The bulb was pushed into the socket and twisting the hose the bulb was released. It came out in the hose and the new bulb went back in to the socket the same way. I kept a short hose on a pencil in my shirt pocket. For a long time, no one knew how I was doing it so quick.
Bad, stuck dowel pin in a blind hole. drill a hole through the length of of the pin, tap it and install a grease fitting. Use the grease gun to pressurize the area behind the pin. It jacks the dowel pin straight out.
Broken-off stainless steel exhaust manifold studs in an aluminum cylinder head, in chassis Use 90 degree angle head drill. Center punch, drill using bit from set of SPLINED easy out (Snap-on or Rigid). Pack the wax from a candle into the hole. Heat the broken stud to cause the wax and wick up the threads of the stud from the inside. Allow time to cool. Drive the SPLINED easy-out into the hole, place the matching splined nut onto the easy-out. Turns out smoothly most times.
Many Dana (and other) differential use a lock bolt to keep the cross shaft in the spiders from coming out of the ring gear carrier. The bolt has a dowel below the threads. Very frequently, the bolt fractures and cracks off at the lower thread leaving the pin end in the cross shaft. The broken off pin can be remove from the carrier in chassis by making a drill bushing
from the broken off head of the bolt. Drill a 1/8" hole through it. Using it and the 12"long carbide 1/8" drill you bought from McMaster-Carr, Drill into the dowel pin remaining in the carrier. Drive the 1/8" splines easy-out into the drilled hole, place the splined nut and turn out the remnant.
And the winner is.......
Soap is the best I’ve found as it tends to lubricate the assembly as it travels. Great video, thanks Steve.
I've seen this done a few times now. The next time I change one I'm leaving my puller in the drawer and grabbing the bread. Great video.
Some things in life are very simple - once you know them. Thank you very much!!
Hi Steve and Elizabeth, very cool trick/tip. Awesome video.
Yeah...found that trick a few years back and applied it with success. Somebody's synapses were firing hard when they figured that out.
Working in an engine reconditioning department of a British car manufacturer during my apprenticeship, they always used bearing grease and a rod machined a nominal size fit. this used to work every time even though the bearing would be worn. You're basically hydraulic pressing it out. Using grease leaves no chance of contamination and allows the new one to go in easier without needing to thoroughly clean the hole out.
That is a slick trick! Thanks Steve.
Thank you for the content an calming voice
That was an awesome mechanic trick love it
Been using modeling clay for years.. Works great.
Now let's see you put it back in with bread. good job
Back in the 70's when I was in the diesel shop, I just used grease. When I put a tow truck clutch in my F250, out came the tube of EP2. Didn't have to waste part of my lunch doing it.😱🤣😎
Best wishes from the far North.
Back in high school our shop teacher showed us the grease trick for removing the pilot bushing. It is messy. Thanks for sharing the bread trick. It definitely is a lot cleaner. I never would have thought of it.
Great video. I have seen wet paper towels, and wet tissues, used the same way.
Have used bread to remove pilot bushings. Also when you're trying to solder copper water lines and you still have water leaking. Shove a piece of bread down the pipe. It would stop the water long enough to solder your fitting on there. And then open the pipe and it will come out straight out
We did the same thing back in the 1960's when I worked at Bardons & Oliver machine Co.
To remove the hardened bushings in turret lathe square turrets, we used oil and cotton waste on a hydraulic press, it's amazing when you see the bushing pop up!
Old school but works thanks for the video and time Steve
I used this trick a couple years ago, and almost couldn't believe how well it worked.
When we were younger and had to pull the rear axle on a car, we would take a log chain and fasten one end of the chain to the axle using the wheel lugs and lug nuts on a couple of the lugs and grabbing the log chain about 4 feet back and snap it back, just like trying to crack a whip.
It might take a couple try’s but it always did the job when we didn’t have a slide hammer to get them out. One nice thing about getting older is the tools that you accumulate, and yes, I now own a slide hammer.
That's how nearly all aircraft repairs are done. By throwing massive amounts of "Bread" at them.
You said it !!! But that kind of bread has portraits of presidents on it.
@@chuckinwyoming8526 Yes... it works just as well with their faces on it. Shred it, and shove it in the hole. :)
Yup, boat repairs, classic car restorations, old homes with "charm", they all like lots of bread.
Lot cleaner than grease. Good tip!
Thanks for sharing Steve.
Hope it helps some folk.
I know how to shoot a u-joint bearing cap through a window using a torch! Not what I was expecting, but it was impressive!
Well I never would have believed it. Something to store in the back of the memory
Hi Steve That was good, You even had a portable vacuum to clean up the mess No batteries or power needed Thanks for the video
That’s what I used to call my dog Dylan when we’d drop food on the floor.
Hi Steve,
What a neat trick! I've used grease in the past for pilot bushing removal but, like you said, it is messy. Thanks for the surprise, Monday video!
-mike
Cool simple and effective. good video.
Hello Steve, I have done this trick for years but I always have used paper cut up in small pieces and soaked in water. After bearing is out all you have left is a hard paper puck. Thanks for sharing.
Best sick day I’ve ever taken smh been fighting a abscessed tooth all weekend took today because the antibiotics got me a bit weak kneed but figured I’d be bored out of my mind can’t piddle in the shop so just a TH-cam day
When we want to piddle in the shop , we have a funnel in the corner with a hose going outside .
I have used this one myself a few times. I normally just go for the slide hammer though as it tends to be faster and 99 times out of 100 if I pull a bearing out of something I won’t be putting it back.
I first saw this trick on roadkill, admittedly with bar soap in the parking lot of some racetrack. I'm glad I saw it as I recently had a blind bearing on my motorbike my puller wouldn't fit
Wow I will add that trick to my “lunch box”!!!
Very cool trick Steve. I've seen it before not because I'm knowledgeable but just because I'm old. Thanks for reminding me of it.
Steve, I have used bread for another fix. It is in the plumbing trade. When I am trying to do a repair to leaking copper pipe. I cut the pipe open and want to solder a new fitting in. The water that is in the pipe will not let the pipe get hot enough to solder. But if you fill the pipe with bread and pack it in then the water will be kept away from the area that I am trying to solder. After the connection is finished I simply open the water supply again and safely flush the bread out of the pipe. The repair is now complete. It works great! This is particularly helpful when the repair is being made at a low point in the pipe run. No mater how you try to drain the line out the water always seems to keep coming down to the place you want to solder. If there is water in the pipe you can never get it to solder.
Love your new music. :-)
off topic but thank you for changing the outro music much bighter
I've seen this done! Great example of physics!! Always fun to watch
Neat ! I have always used EP2 grease for these and a bolt with the threads cut off to do this. Once all I had was Vaseline that I put in the freezer. The freezer works best on both. I think candle wax would work well too.
Lol
The video made me Want A Sandwich. Lol
Great Info.
So Unbelievable.
😆
I used wheel Grease too remove the bushings like you said!
Hi Steve and Elizabeth ☺ I've used the grease trick for years, but bread , that's a new one for me. Peanut butter always goes well on bread, but not sure if you'd gain anything on this job, lol, thanks for the video, stay safe, best wishe's to all, Stuart Uk.
Used to pack hole full of grease and whittle a handle down or transmission shaft any old rod that fits into pilot bearing bushing and whack with a hammer. Pops right out.😁
I didn’t know about using bread but I have used grease and toilet paper. I did have one with an extra deep pocket behind the bearing, that at first had trapped air. I kept trying and worked out the air pockets. I can see how bread would have worked better. Thanks for sharing!
I have always used water pump grease, but I'm going to switch to bread now. Thanks for the video.
This is a great trick. I've used greasy rags to push the bearing out of an electric motor but the bread trick is better as it will flow easier. Thank you for sharing.
That works way better than grease...nice trick.
Bread, paper towels, grease, grease and paper towels, bar soap, crayons, clay, candles, plastic wrap, aluminum foil...
Basically anything or any combination of things that will stay put in a horizontal hole, fluid enough to transfer hydraulic pressure, and can be hammered with a punch the same size as the ID of the bearing. You can achieve the right sized punch by wrapping electrical or duct tape around an existing punch.
Was so ready for this to be a prank like "You eat the bread and now you're strong enough to remove it"
That has got to be the coolest trick I have ever seen. Thank you for that
Hey Steve,
An old engineer once told to me - How to remove seized studs, deck caps that are rusted in. Build a shallow bund around the cap (Plasticine or the like) and then fill the area with Tabasco sauce. Leave for 24 hrs and simply remove the fitting. Works every time.
Andy UK
PS cant wait to see the truck fire up for the first time.
Wholesome tip 👍
Seen that trick back when I was 20 afraid I am 61 now and just forgot it thanks for reminding me
Morning Steve! Neat trick👍
Good morning 😁👍
I had to check the date during the into to see if perhaps I had slept throught to April 1st. But, as soon as you put the first piece in the hole I knew what was going to happen, and learned something.
done it with tissue paper also steve works a treat
Thank you for sharing. Great idea.👍👀
I worked for Miller Brewing Co. here in SoCa as a Operations Engineer and part of our job was to modify the Stainless-steel piping the product flowed through to add branch lines, instrument lines, pressure sensors, etc. The problem was all SS welds were to be sanitary welds and most of the time would use rice paper to seal the piping but when there's 40 ft of 4-inch pipe to seal off to retain the Argon gas it would take half a tanker truck load of gas, so I'd use loafs of white bread, as it sealed better than wheat, and shoved it in the pipe at the weld location making a small area for the purge gas and finished the weld. The brew house operators would then flow hot caustic through the pipe and dissolve the bread and sanitize the piping to resume operations.
Yeah grease soap butter bread dill pickles, they all seem to work lol!😊✌️
Used this method a couple times.
Also, wet cardboard, mash it up will also do the trick. Did this today in fact to remove a bushing and bearing.
Wow! I will add that trick to my "tool box"!!!
Thanks for this ‘trick’.
My dad showed me how to do that with toilet tissue and grease. The old timers are very clever. Works on blind hole bearings too. 🙂
🙂 Yup. Used the bread trick on bearings back in the 80s.
My dad showed me this when I was a teenager. Its definitely nothing new but still works great and is a mind bender if a guy hasn't seen it before 👍😁
only knew the grease trick , good idea makes way less of a greasy mess
Heard of this, never saw it used. Thanks'
Bread and a pup to clean up, don’t forget the pup.🐶
I seen my farther used soap from a bar of Ivory Soap back in the late 60s on a pilot bearing on a Ford Y block.
I remember a guy once had a freeze plug pop on his old Mopar. It was so close to the firewall there was no way to hammer a new one in. He used some all thread, a couple nuts and sockets, and made a little jack to press against the firewall and push it in place.
Sweet trick
Back when I was a kid (pre video games and computers) most households had some Playdough. My brother and I both used it with success.
Sweet trick! And you can eat lunch at the same time!
That is a brilliant way to remove a bearing. Cheers for tip Steve!