Hey Chris,
A vacuum might work, you do actually have to see the circlip come out. Putting a rag or two around the opening in the crankcase is pretty much standard operating procedure. Now you know why
.. Good news is you can get it out.!
I think you are now officially a student at the School of Hard Knocks... I've been attending for about 40yrs. now.
The first memory I have beeing enrolled was when I took apart my old mans Brand spankin' new Lawn Boy.
He showed me how to cut the grass on saturday after we picked it up.
And I promptly took it apart Monday while he was at work. Needless to say I got most of it apart by simply "Borrowing some of his tools !
I swear I got beat for two weeks for that one... I think the old timer at the lawnmower shop gave him a discount on reassembling the mower.. He couldn't stop Laughing when we took it back to him only fourdays after he sold it to my old man brand new...
There is no moral to the story... I just thought you could use a good laugh...
P.S. Being an old timer myself now, there is something I don't understand in your previous posts...
I'm pretty sure I know what FM stands for.... But cannot figure out the "L".
In my youth I could finnish the FM part with any of the following...
Blind, Runnin' , Hard, Silly, ...
I thought maybe it meant Long... But that didn't quite fit, that seems it would need
another letter like "and Hard" any ways.. please keep it clean. I don't talk like that anymore and hope you don't either...
Tuck\o/