I found a good way to remove that diff gear from the plastic diff housing without using a hammer. It takes a bit of patients, but I manage to remove the gear on both my diffs.
What I did was take a long piece of dental floss and with a couple of small screw drivers, push the floss down around the outer edge of the gear. Go around the gear till you're almost around the whole gear. Pull the floss slowly to get it to slide under the gear. Once it's under the gear, you can pull hard on both ends. As long as the gear isn't so stuck that the floss breaks, it'll work. But like I said, it does take some patients to get this to work.
Very thin wire might work better than floss, but all I had around the house was floss.
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