Removing vicous fan

Thanks for the help. Even though the pilot shaft only sticks out about a 1/4" the shaft flange was on there pretty good. Thanks for the tip about the sheet of cardboard too. It's off now.

When I went to order a new water pump last weekend, the parts guy said there's a 6 or 8 vane pump and that it doesn't matter if the car has A/C or not so I needed to take the pump off before ordering the new one. It turns out it has an 8 vane and the 7 bolts all came off without any shearing.