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Something you guys might like: Harbor Freight sells a pretty good knockoff of the Greenlee hydraulic junction box knockout punch tool. It's got a 3/4-16 internal thread on the piston and it's a pull-type cylinder. You can very easily make adapters to use it to press on harmonic balancers, transmission gears, etc etc - anything that needs to go onto the end of a shaft with a puller thread cut into it *without* abusing the bearings the shaft is already suspended by. I just used some 3/4 threaded rod, 1/2 inch threaded rod, a random scrap of DOM, and a 1/2-20 and 3/4-20 nut welded back to back to install the fifth gear on my NV4500, and it'd work just as well for pulling balancers onto cranks quickly with no effort and no cranking on an installer tool.
Thank you for the tip. That could be useful.