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Ok everyone thanks for the help. The needle nose just couldn't get the sleeve off. Had to resort to some channel locks and carefully rocked the the thing off. It was pretty stubborn. Then I got the Dremel tool out and lightly cleaned out the cavity and the shaft using a tiny wire wheel. Then spent most of the rest of the time cleaning the build up off the inlet and outlet mainly so I could tell if they were leaking in the future. Installed a new cover used some medium thread locker mainly to seal the threads, again for future removals. Painted the pulley and bracket and reinstalled the thing. That's when I started noticing the wrong hose sizes and various other annoying details that can get fixed another time.

Plan is to pull this whole thing next year and do a complete rebuild. I suspect we use the motor here more on the river than other locations, because of the 4+ knot current that seems to only go in one direction, day in and day out, unlike the tide.