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Very sorry to read what has happened!
This has got to be the biggest nightmare in removing a flywheel of a 40 hp OMC motor that I have ever come across…….I have never heard of one of the OMC puller bolts breaking!
You have certainly done everything correctly that I can think of.
Your experience reminds me of many years back when I made up my own puller and was removing the flywheel using some high tensile bolts One the bolts snapped and I ended up having to ‘go cap in hand’ to the local Evinrude agent, where he gave me a ‘dressing down’ for using ordinary high tensile bolts. Needless to say I bought an OMC puller and no more problems.
As fleetwin said, it maybe easier to waste the flywheel.
Monte NZ