Removing gear from outdrive (housing side)

[dasbo]

alright folks,

I know this has been in threads before (some time ago) but I just thought I'd check to see if anyone has come up with a better method than tapping the gear housing on a worktop. No amount of tapping is removing my gears from the outdrives. This is the first time I've tried to do this since building the car a year ago, since my diffs have been leak free until now. If I remember rightly, they were a very snug fit to begin with. I've also been whacking it with a hex driver and hammer but it's still not popping off.

Is this something else I have to take the dremel to during maintenance?

Cheers guys