Pulling Primary with water and teflon tape

[TheBreeze]

In the past, I have always had great luck pulling primarys by hydraulicing them off with water and Teflon taping the threads of the puller. For some reason I can not get it to work. Ive tried wrapping the tape in both directions, on a clean puller about 30 times, and every time the Teflon tape just gets pushed up the threads.

Any ideas/tips? I much prefer this method to the old school way as it pops off nice and easy once you get the threads to seal.....

 

[LoudHandle]

My guess would be too many wraps. Looking at the puller from the wrench end you should wrap counter clockwise and taper the wraps, one complete wrap at the start of the thread and a partial overlap moving towards the wrench end. Five to ten wraps should be plenty, unless you are using the really thin cheap "Teflon" tape that is only 5% Teflon at best. Most of your hardware store varieties are mostly filler.

Regardless, I've had great luck with electrical tape, acetone, or whatever was handy at the time.

Try less wraps, less likely to ball up and mush down the puller. It only does any good when it is between the male and female threads.

Hope that helps.

 

[mortelec]

I don't know if this will help or not but I've had the best luck getting bolt pressure on it and pouring boiling water over the part that's tapered and it usually pops off.

 

[sledhead Ed]

I use teflon tape and grease instead of water. it works great just a little messy.

 

[snengineer]

As stated above dont put too much tape on at the beginning of the threads. I have messed up some threads in the past not being careful with this, especially when you tap on the puller head to get the two halfs apart, make sure your threaded in most of the way before you tap on the puller! Other then that it works great, try greasing the threads a little in the fixed half it tape keeps pushing, make sure the tape it wrapped tight.