Shaft removal.
The question of pressing or cutting is somewhat secondary to physically reaching the parts that need to be pressed or cut. At the moment I can’t actually reach the back of the engine well enough to do any of that which is why I am thinking of pulling the prop and sliding the engine with the bare prop shaft all the way forward.
Once there, I think the only thing I’ll have to cut is the bolt heads on the prop side of the half coupler. Once I nip those off, I should be able to separate the half coupler from the engine half coupler and save the shaft and prop side half coupler for use on the new motor.
Obviously this can only be done with the boat out of the water, and this is the urgency to get this job done—to get the boat IN the water!
Hopefully obtaining a puller today for the prop....
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