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Thanks Davo, I knew about the plates being junk, I use a 1-1/2" thick steel plate. A 6" piece of 1/4 wall pipe worked good for supporting the diff. Plenty of room for the gear to pass through. And just for reference, the spur gear just passes through the bed of the press, I had to rotate it a...

Updating this: I ended up with a 20 ton HF press, been wanting one anyway. It did the job but it took some good pressure to get it started. Once it "popped" it was easy going. I stood off to the side and good thing as it turns out the bearing race blew apart. Must not of been seated correctly .

I have a friend with a 20 ton that's not far, I just have doubts about it but it is worth a shot. I'll report back.

Going through a couple of spare differentials and need to press out the spur gear/hypoid gear. The manual simply states to "put it into press". Anyone know the actual tonnage required to press this out? When I do buy a press, I want to be sure I can do this in the future. Pic below shows where...