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Remove the Aligment Ring from crank??


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I am changing my engine and trying to get the ring that goes in the end of the crank off the old engine to put that on the new engine (new engine is a manual) And I cant figure how to get that ring out of the old one. Anyone have any tricks to remove it? Thanks!! My new engine is almost ready to go in the car just need this removed from old one to get to the new engine before i can put it together!
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liquid from one of those "canned air" spray cans you use for cleaing keyboards. Just tip it upside down and it sprays out the liquid contents, they rapidly boil off and super-chill whatever you spray it on. Get the carank end warm/hot with a torch and then spray just the ring. Shoudl shrink it enough to fall out (perhaps with some persuation). Shouldn't be cold enough to temp-shock the crank metal. I'd try other methods first but this is an option.

 

You could also try chilling it with ICE after heating the crank, but the water gettign in to the joint and crank threads would be problematic. Douce it with some WD-40 before and after, the WD stands for water displacing, that what it was origionaly designed to to.

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