Show me your sleeve pullers !

Haven't been able to borrow a sleeve puller. They gotta' come out & I've gotta' make a puller. Share with me and the rest of the world, pictures of your home made sleeve pullers. The roughest 580CK in captivity has got to give hers up. Them sleeves gotta' be yanked! Thanks for your help. Packratc

I used a seal driver from the bottom, used a broken air chisel bit and welded on a longer shaft. drove them out slicker than snot

I think thoes are wet and they should stick down in the crankcase enough bump them up then they should be free the rest of the way be ready for a antifreeze bath when you knock them up.

Mine basically looks like an inverted 3 jaw puller with a lock plate to hold them against the liner walls. The center rod goes out the top and has a set of steel bars that act as the press block, then it just threads them out. The threaded portion has the same thread size/pitch as an OTC silver slapper slide hammer. Using this puller it is easier to do "in-frames".

I pulled the sleeves on my 580d with a 3jaw puller for a slide hammer... I used a piece of B7 hard all thread with matching threads..5/8"x18 sounds right.
Made a little stand out of scrap metal to set on the top of the engine block. Used some 5/8" lug nuts to pull with. Worked like a charm.

Yair...I used to cut a circle out of (say) half inch plate about an eighth less than the OD of the liner, cut off the sides so it will fit through the bore, drill hole in centre to take three quarter Samson bar and make up a little stand with a hole in the centre to sit up on the deck.

A piece of Samson bar a couple of flat washers and nuts to suit and you're good to go.

Cheers.

Here is a home made puller, 2 pieces angle iron, square tubing,ready rod & a skukum base plate to fit the bottom of the liner, only used it once 7 years ago to do 4 liners, been collecting dust ever since.

self made pull end

self-made end

Thanks for the photos TD-5. Now you've used it again to help another lost soul in the future. He'll copy yours and you will have made a fan for life. If you lean over 90 degrees you'll see the one I was able to borrow from a local tractor repair shop. They made us of a farm implement pulley, some ready rod, and a spacer. That spacer happens to be Blackhawk brand 1 7/16 inch impact socket. Pretty pricey spacer in my book. Obviously the business end that goes on the bottom of the sleeve and is pulled up by the rod, is shown in pics #2 & #3. Took a couple of hours to make out of half inch steel and welded on nut. Incidently, my engine is still in the frame and the crankshaft is still in it. I first made the piece the full circle the size of the sleeve. It obviously wouldn't go down the bore and I couldn't get it between the crank throws and the block. Took the torch to it and made it slightly narrower than the rod bearing journal. A tight fit but after we got the first one the other went pretty quick. Great advise in this thread. About a half a gallon of antifreeze came spilling down when the sleeves came out. Good advise from here saved me from that green bath. Thanks for you help.Packratc

Those 188's have a bad habit of cracking the block between sleeve bores ,(very thin there) check that out .
Good Luck

A bottle jack, piece of 2x4 and jack it up under the liner, pops them loose and your set to go, make sure you don't press against the block any, just the edge of the liner, cheapest puller ever devised or is it considered a pusher.

I've used a more professional version of Randys tool - I machined a piece of plate to fit the bottom of the liner. The bottle jack works just fine on crawlers, where you've got some serious weight in the engine, frame and hardnose.
On a 580 backhoe, you mightn't have enough weight, you might have to get professional, and hang some scrap cast iron off the grille, to provide the necessary resistance ....

OzDozer, you are a man of great insight. However, to avoid the back breaking labor of lifting that cast scrap metal, I recommend that you fill the bucket with concrete. Then, chain the loader arms to the grill or frame of the hoe. Gravity assits the hoe gaining you the necessary resistance (using your word). If this is still not sufficient, I would recommend filling the front tires with saline/water which you can leave in there to assist with steering should you over load the back hoe. Packratc

OzDozer said:

The bottle jack works just fine on crawlers, where you've got some serious weight in the engine, frame and hardnose.
On a 580 backhoe, you mightn't have enough weight, you might have to get professional, and hang some scrap cast iron off the grille, to provide the necessary resistance ....

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yeah, tell me about it, i rigged up a pretty decent pusher and its lifting the tractor up instead of popping the sleeve out, i backed off and am reassessing now on how to proceed.