I've tried using a screw, punch, anything I could think of but I am just shredding and putting holes in it. I've tried to deform it with a screwdriver and punch in order to get a piece of it bu nothing works.

I'm at my wits end on this one. I have never seen a seal so difficult to come out.


Any other suggestions?

 

Burn it out with a map gas torch (remove the remains in little pieces), or take the oil pan off so you can get the oil pump off and work on it on the bench.

 

I havent actually done the first one, just an idea.

 

If I need to pull the oil pump, must the oil pan come out?

 

Yes, oil pan bolts to it.

 

not fully out - but you do have to undo the front bolts and it helps to lower it a bit (not completly necessary - but it makes lif alot eaiser when you put teh pump back).

Chris White

 

So I managed to get it out. Unfortunately, I managed to score the oil pump housing area around the seal. The scored area is at the forward most section so I think that it can still seal well. I'm debating weather I should just replace the oil pump housing anyway as I would hate to reasemble this and have it leak.