How do you get the snap ring out of reluctor?

It's easy to do once you know how, right? :o( ... thanks for the help. BTW, I got it all apart and found that the pickup coil is wrong ... the black part that "meets" the reluctor is about 2 hundreds of an inch fatter from front to back than the outgoing part and cannot be adjusted back far enough, so the reluctor will strike it. I ordered a new reluctor and coil from NAPA so I'll see if that fixes the problem.