You've tried every pry-bar and puller on the rack. You've re-checked 15 times for the bolt or snap-ring you might have missed. There is no way on God's Green Earth to get it apart.

The text: "Remove the out-board bearing cup from the flange bore". Period! Period??

REMOVE??

If you can, you wrestle the whole assembly into the press, apply the Rose Bud for 10 minutes, and then stand behind something really solid (like a D8 or a 245. A 988B is a little wild because stuff bounces off the tires) while applying 500 Tons with the remote control. When it finally comes apart with a horrendous BANG!!, all the parts jump out of the press and fly around the shop.

(Important Safety Tip: Inform your co-workers what is about to happen! NOT because of the flying parts, but because the NOISE could give them a heart attack)

This is also a fun time to place your life-like plastic "severed finger in a pool of blood" on the press bed (If you have a morbid sense of humor... and I do) and dance around screaming while holding your "stub".

Sometimes, the press jumps straight up and tips over too. This is a macho-cool event that doesn't happen often, but to be savored if it does.

It's also fun to point out things stuck in the wall and inform turd-head shop tourists how "that would have cut you in half!".

Another super-fun variation on this theme is accomplished with the "Cat Press". All the forces are applied through adaptors, couplers, legs, braces, & etc, and a portable pump. The "finale" is a fantastic explosion of stored energy that sometimes sling your cat press parts up to 40 feet. This game is usually played alone, outside, in the rain.

If this doesn't work, get the "acetylene-sixteenths" and slice the least expensive or replaceable parts until you can get at what you needed to.

Rule of thumb: If you destroy less than twice what was wrong to begin with, you're doing pretty good!

So you imagine that they would already have a nice, sanitary method devised or would have been smart enough to engineer it a little better?