I believe you need to press it off. I haven't done the one for the truck yet but when I did my 57 Olds it had to be pushed out with an arbour press with an adapter I made to push the head back through the plate. I'll look for some pictures of the set up I used.


1952 GMC 9430 one ton pickup, a work in progress

1952 1-ton pictures on Photobucket