Any advice on manufacturer or part number for the wrist pin puller tool?

 

Are you saying you can't push them out with your fingers? A decent tool will run about $60-$70. Might consider getting someone to hold the piston while you tap the pin out.......

 

I hadn't tried yet, but my service manual and most of the instructions I have seen say to use one. I'll try my fingers first though.

 

Fingers should do it! Only thing I would add is drilling out the oil return in the rocker support and some rockouts while its apart.

 

Got em ordered now. Thanks. I hadn't heard about the drilling out the oil return in the rocker support mod. For anyone who hasn't done it and happens on this thread:



I plan to use an 1/8" bit and then one slightly larger to add an angled bevel to the hole.

 

Might also order the later stamped breathers, PN26500002. About $7.50 each and, according to some, a more efficient and improved breather. The really cool thing about them as that they make the R/R of the rear rocker support a breeze........

 

I believe the 88's had the stamp steel ones but in 07 they went to the cast ones then back to stamped steel. He might already have the stamped ones.

 

try a small clamp with bit of pvc pipe to press out

 

I'll check this. I have an '06 88 and I think I had the cast assembly, but I'll check them when I get home.

 

Trust me, you don't have the stamped breathers. IIRC, '99-'01 were plastic and not sold as an assembly; '02 were aluminum because the plastic warped and were sold as an assembly or individual parts for rebuilding; PN 1765-02. Notice the PN provided in my previous; the PN format started changing a couple of years back. Earliest year for the stamped breathers was 2011; maybe some late '10 models got them as a running change. Bottom line is that unless someone has install the later stamped breathers, you don't have them and should add them to your parts list.......