Thanks, I got the outer shells out no problem. For that kind of money I bought a medium sized press on sale at Harbor Freight. I just welded washers on the end and pushed them out with the press. (That worked great on the uppers too). I didn't notice a seam on the inner one. I used a cutoff wheel to cut two notches to try to catch it with a bearing splitter, that didn't work and I managed to put a groove in the pin. Then I slit it lengthwise with the cutoff wheel and split it with a chisel. I then did the same on the second one and didn't damage that one. The sleeves didn't fall in half when I split them, so I don't think there was a seam on either...
