I was assuming it was the pilot bearing that's the problem because of this sentence:
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A bearing on the very end of the shaft is frozen and will not budge (preventing us from pulling the tranny and shaft out).
I've never seen a pilot bearing stick to the end of the input shaft, but I have had a few that were stubborn to remove from the crankshaft.
If you get a stuck pilot bearing, and don't have the correct slide hammer to remove it, there's a trick that's cheap and easy to do. Fill the cavity behind the pilot bearing full of grease, and using a drift/socket with a reversed bolt head/anything that will seal the grease and handle a hammer blow to hammer into the grease. You'll have to add a little grease a couple of times, (maybe) but eventually the grease will pop the bearing out since it's not compressible. I've done this several times and it works every time.
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