As it turns out the Clymer manual is full of baloney. I found the main bearing, and had the crankshaft rebuilt with new pin, bearings, etc. The crank slides right in with no pressure, heating, freezing blah blah. Did a test fit with the other crankcase half with the crank in place, nothing needs to be "pulled" together, just make sure all the mating surfaces are square with each other, the more I read the crank installation procedure, the less sense it made. The Yamaha shop confirmed this, the SST is for seperating only, if the crankcase halves, and the crankshaft don't slide all together easily, you messed up somewhere. I also noted in the manual that when the crankshaft service is covered, all of a sudden the procedures are shown with drawn illustrations insted of photographs, like the rest of the book. This suggests to me that the mechanics never rebuilt the crankshaft at all, and just gave a general description of inspection, runout and so forth. Always nice when things turn out easier than one expects  . Thaks for all the input
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