Okay drdano, you have given me another excuse to purchase more new tools....thanks. The HF pilot bearing puller has favorable reviews. I forgot about the grease explosion mess. Also do not want to waste bread and not have any for my morning peanut butter toast and coffee breakfast.
One tool from HF that has been very handy for this project, is this Pittsburgh scissor transmission jack. $100 minus 20 percent coupon = $80. Simple to use. I am too old to lift transmissions into position by hand, or maybe I never was that strong, but I forget. Balancing a manual transmission on the floor jack has never been very successful for me, either.
I do not have a lift in my garage, so this little transmission jack works great for folks that have to work on cars sitting on jack stands. I have been laying on my back on the concrete quite a bit for this TKO 600 project.