[AtomicLabMonkey]

Have you r&r'd any of these seals? Like I said, those picks are worthless. The seals are one piece units with a housing that are pressed into a bore in the engine. You can slide a hook end up inside the I.D. of the seal and tug on it all day and they won't come out, cause you can't generate enough force with your hand. And it's not the seal you're worried about damaging, since you're removing it, it's the machined sealing surface of the cam/crank.