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The OMC puller uses shoulder bolts which align the puller and flywheel up straight, if you don’t have shoulder bolts with yours maybe put some equal length spacers on your bolts. The straight alignment really helps so the pull is straight up and not cocked, even just a little.
I don’t have shoulder bolts, but have been looking on Ebay for some. None say “grade 8″
that I’ve found.
The grade 8 bolts I do have from the local hardware, are probably Chinese made, but
only broke one so far!
There’s 1/2″ of thread on each bolt, so I just screwed them in all the way, and measured
around the puller for equal distance.
Just came in from the garage, and suspended the power head via 5/8” rods under the flywheel,
supported by wood blocking. Still no joyful event. Going to get the torch out again. 🙁
Prepare to be boarded!