If the threads in the clutch shaft are damaged but not stripped completely (the pullers are softer material than the clutch shaft). You may need to order a M14 x 1.5 extended reach tap and use it to clean up and renew the threads that are still there inside the clutch shaft. Then you will clean out the inside of the clutch shaft good with brake cleaner. Then get some soft white bread.....YES white bread.....- roll pieces of it into little logs and stuff it into the inside of the clutch shaft (make sure to leave enough room for the puller to be pushed in and catch a few threads. Then use a new clutch puller, put plenty of anti-seize on the threads and run it in to remove the clutch like normal. The bread works like hydraulic fluid to push the clutch off instead of straight mechanical force with the puller only- sounds crazy but works every time.
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