Reply To: Seal Removal

[Don]

You are not alone, these seals are a royal pain in the butt…Slide hammer arrangements tend to just bend the seal lip out…Trying to drill through and thread a screw/puller arrangement usually doesn’t work either. Those large seal pullers will damage the delicate aluminum housing, so you have to be very careful…
You may want to consider removing the rubber from the seal just leaving the metal case in place. Heating and bending an old screwdriver sometimes works when driving it out with a hammer through the bottom of the housing…But, you must be careful to protect the bronze bushing while banging on the screwdriver that is passing through it….Perhaps slicing a bit of rubber hose and slipping it over the screwdriver shank will protect the bushing surface….
Those seals really aren’t glued in place, it is just a tight fit….