Mine took a lot to get moving. It wasn't initially the stuck steering clutch, because even with that stuck, there's some float in the shafts and bearings enabling me to at least move the assembly a few thousandths. Mine were hung up on the dowels as far as I could tell and it took a LOT to get them initially moving. Then I ran into the stuck clutch plates issue. Because my plates were so rusted out, I just strong-armed the assembly off and bent off all the teeth - I was replacing them anyway so didn't care. The bullwheel shaft can also hang - that's the one that pokes into that boss that sticks out to the inside on the main transmission case. I used a handful of thin metal paint scrapers to release the gasket and I also punched the dowels to get them to move. What I would have liked is something like a rock screen vibrator - that would have loosened it up in no time. Took probably 3-4 days of tinkering with it to get it to move