Has anyone removed the camshaft adaper that is installed on the end of the camshaft that drives the pulley to the waterpump?
It appears to be pressed on. How does one go about removing it from the camshaft?

 

Geeze. Sometimes you guys make it so difficult and I end up having to figure out how to do something.
I had some time to look at how the water pump adapter is fitted onto the camshaft.

1. There is a very small gap between the end of the adapter and the last cam lobe. (1-2mm)
(Weeks ago, I had tried to hammer with some chissels and thinner metal wedges to try to make the gap wider and the adapter move, no luck)
2. This evening, I went through all my bearing splitters and found the smallest one I had. (About a 60mm X 60mm spliter)
3. The round 1/2 side edges barely fit into the 1-2mm gap.
4. I placed the camshaft horizontal on my press and carefully placed the splitter halves around the camshaft to adapter gap.
5 Loaded up press and was able to get the gap to widen to about 5 mm.
8 Bolted the bearing splitter together around the gap, put the camshaft vertically into the press, dropped a bolt that fit down the hole in the adapter and via the bolt, pushed the camshaft down off of the adapter.

Not as bad as I thought it would be.