Re: Flywheel persuasion

[David Stanton]

I had trouble getting flywheels off a couple of 35 HP RDs until I got some good advice here and bought the OMC puller. Yes it was just a bolt puller, but the hardened bolts had a shoulder above the threads so they were screwed in the same distance, and diameter above the threads was a bit larger. Whatever all the differences were, this puller worked right way where my generic bolt puller did not. I dug around the web a bit to find a good price.

Yes the crack you have put inteh flywheel ruined it – that crack will only get larger as you run the motor.
Dave