just buy a harmonic damper removal tool. pretty cheap, and yank it off. shouldn't mess it up bad anyhow. as for gettin my stocker off... hmm. maybe i'd just like to buy the afx from you if you pull it? cuz, the one on ebay is "fairly dinged and scratched" as well. i'm just really wanting to do the 120k change so i want one soon. if you change your mind, i have money for you if i don't win on ebay.