I think I know the answer to this, but, wanted to confirm before I throw in the towel.
I can squeeze the ends of this ring so they’re touching, but, I can’t pull the ring out. Am I safe to assume that this ring isn’t meant to come out through this opening?
If anyone’s interested, it’s the top of a eps motor worm shaft.
Thanks, I have pliers. I can squeeze the rings all the way together, but the bulk of the ring is still underneath the edge of the housing.
The only way I could see this ring coming out is if I could find a way to squeeze the rings so they overlap a bit- maybe by matching up the holes. But I don’t think there’s a tool that does that.
Remove one end of the snap-ring at a time. As you compress the snap-ring, keep one ear in the grove, use a pocket screwdriver to raise the other ear.
Yeah those dental picks to slip the hook under. Anything put together by man can be taken apart again. Just a question if you can get it together again or it will cost you $1000. Hope whatever is behind there is not spring loaded.
Sometimes you can, once the snap ring pliers are in place, twist the pliers moving one end out of the grove and then cock the pliers and pull moving only one end of the snap ring out of the grove and then squeeze the pliers again to remove the snap ring, or use a pick or small screw driver to work it the rest of the way out… Pretty much what Nevada said… lol
It’s kind of a flick of the wrist thing that you learn doing transmissions as they normally have lots of snap rings in them…
It’s possible that snap ring isn’t designed to be removed without removing something above it first. But it looks like it could be removed by bringing the two ends together (using snap ring tool) then twisting the ring back and forth, clockwise and counterclockwise , while exerting a little outward force on the tool. Sometimes when removing the snap ring on my truck’s free-running front hub, I’ll have to push the center section backward slightly & use a pick or small-blade screwdriver to get part of it out of the groove as part of the process. (If it sounds like that would require 3 hands, you are right! … lol …)
