I tried to preposition my heatsink a few times, and after i applied thermal paste, i didn't boot my computer to turn it on to loosen the paste a bit, so what i did was just pull my pump off with a little bit of force. My cpu was obviously not on the heatsink, but will it damage my pins if i just pull using a little bit of force? I tried to gently remove it, but the way my pump screws in is that i need to remove the pump first before i could try to wiggle it around, so there was no option to wiggle the pump around.