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[peteroznewman]

I'm glad you found a good tutorial.  I meant to send you this link which has the APDL code for fluid pressure in part 3.

(3) O-ring seal with fluid pressure

https://courses.ansys.com/index.php/courses/structural-nonlinearity/lessons/homework-quizzes-simulation-examples-nonlinearity-lesson-4/

If you can show an image of the self contact, that would be helpful. Why don't you want the pressure removed from the region of self contact?