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Old 06-27-2006
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One way to do this is to place an appropriately sized socket at the non-propeller end of the shaft, use longer coupling bolts, and press the shaft out of the coupling by tightening the bolts and squeezing the socket between the engine-side coupling and the shaft inside the other coupling. This can be MUCH harder than it sounds. If you have three bolts on your coupling, it sounds like you have a V-drive. The longer bolts you use can't be too long or they won't fit around the shape of the coupling.
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