I forgot to comment - Herb, when you wrote that you'd go with what Cat says, go with the 25t spec listed in the front of the book using your pressing method and / or follow the instruction that says to tap the hub while tightening the nut (and how would one determine the fitted tonnage using that method)? I'd guess you meant that you'd use the press method despite the book saying tap and tighten? I'd be inclined to as well, because then I would know how many tons it's pressed on with

My sprockets were hand-tight, this final gear was actually loose, the brake hub popped off fairly easily, and the steering hub had to be cut off. My 20t hollow ram wouldn't even look at it. I just about used an M bottle cutting that thing off (more skill probably would have saved some gas : )

Thanks Scotty - I didn't get them rose-red but if I'm understanding you, would that be to relieve the binding pressure on the bolt heads? I ended up using a 1" rattle gun which wrung most of their necks. Since then I've picked up a mag drill and a set of annular cutters so I'm going to drill out the remnants and clean it all up.

And I've picked up some NOS 2F2565 master pins from Spain - the ones with the equal sized plugs so I can split tracks easily. I have the new plugs as well. Blumaq has about a dozen of these pins in the warehouse there.
New set of bearings all round for the left final arrived today and a new pinion from Florin in the next few days so that final is just about done (only been 6 months... )