Shift Shaft help

A couple weeks ago I had another thread about pinpointing the leak on my 904. It was definitely the shift shaft.

So I finally started yesterday and unfortunately it’s been very difficult.

I have clearance using the clamp method and all was going well. I tightened the shift shaft tool extractor onto the seal, it threaded on well. Then, using the bolt above I started turning it so to put pressure on the seal and pull it up. This is where my difficulty lies. The seal is not coming up, instead the rubber of the seal is just shaving off and falling to pieces and coming out in thin curved strands.

So now it’s leaking really bad and I’m out of ideas. I tried to carefully pick on the metal to metal outer side of the seal with a flathead screw driver but no luck in popping it out.

Any ideas? I really don’t want to drop the pan and punch it out. I feel like I’ll just be opening a whole other can of worms and create another leak point.

Since I got some of the seal off, now it’s REALLy leaking.