very weird. You try a slide hammer???

 

Oh, the shaft bushings. The first change I was stupid enough to try to change them out as FSM states. I had to roll and tear them out. Ended up scratching the fork races

 

Did you have the plug in the bell housing? If not it could have a lot of debris in it... which makes it next to impossible to get off. We had the same issue with mine, we ended up having to slowly turn the flywheel and disconnect it that way... what a pain

 

Any luck with that?