Fusion Bullet Skin Removal Question

[CGE925]

I'm starting to remove the skin from my new-but-used Fusion Bullet DS, in preparation for a cleaning and to be able to install my yet to be purchased Sport skin, and I've run into an issue that I'd appreciate some assistance with before I do some damage. I built a simple spanner tool and removed the Apeks intake and exhaust valves very easily, but I am having trouble figuring out the gaskets on both sides. I assume the gaskets have to be removed in order to separate the skin from the core, but there does not seem to be an obvious way to remove them, and I can't find any discussions on the Web that would help. A Youtube video I did find breezes through the valve removal and makes no mention of the seats/gaskets.

Any thoughts and comments, particularly from those who have done this, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Aqua-Andy]

Leave the gaskets, they are only attached to the inner bag. The hole in the outer skin just stretches around the valve pad or gasket.

 

[CGE925]

Leave the gaskets, they are only attached to the inner bag. The hole in the outer skin just stretches around the valve pad or gasket.

Thanks, got it. I guess I was just being too delicate with the thing and didn't think the skin had THAT much stretch, but it does. Suit is apart and underwent a good cleaning.