A bit o carb/TB cleaner and lots of patience. Let it soak in and push up and down on the seal starting at the ends. Use a peice of plastic or a fingernail to do the pushing and work your way to the center. Spray as much as you need to keep soaking into the carbon.

 

Hey, I saved you some typing, and time finding the stuff though, didn't I? lol.



Whats PB Blaster, anyways?

 

This is almost what i did. I broke off a piece of the side seal near the corner seal. Now i pull the spring from under the seal, then drive an old xacto blade under the seal like a wedge. The seal will break a few times before its all out.



The Xacto blade seems to be nearly the same profile as the seal, so it fits well in the slot.

 

I can't pull the spring out, that's stuck in there, too. I'm thinking I'm pretty much screwed.

 

Damn, is this rotor a ball of rust? The spring is just a piece of wire.

 

When I pulled it out, it was a big ball of carbon. The carbon was about 3-4 mm thick. I was like HOLY ****! No wonder it froze! I think its a hopeless attempt, trying to get the seals out.

 

Carbon is good you can desolve carbon but if the seal had rusted in thats diffrent.

 

Not when it freezes the engine, its not. I didn't dissolve the carbon, I used a wire brush attachment for a drill. The seal probably is rusted in, though.

 

Wow it was easy to get out with an exacto. Thanks all. I just put it under the seal and chizzled it out. easy as pie.

 

Well, the corner seal was stuck, too, but I used a thin long nail, and a makeshift hammer (I was too lazy to find one) (made out of pipes, reducers, and a pipe cap, lol), and kept hitting the nail in between the gap between the corner seal and rotor, and popped all 6 out in about 20 minutes. Whatever works, right?