Spider Gear Removel - Dana 44

[Mattman2010]

After finding out last weekend that my spider gears on my Dana 44 where missing teeth and some where cracked I am now trying to remove them. I have the whole carrier in the axle still and I was trying to just use a punch to push the roll pin out. But my punch will not fit in there all the way. Can I pull the carrier out and put it back in the same way it came out? I have never done anything to a axle before besides change brakes and I know that changing gears is not something simple that you can do.

So to sum up that, How can I go about removing the spider gears? None of my punches will get the roll pin out before they hit the bearing cap (not sure what it is called it holes the carrier in the housing). So do I pull the whole housing, or is there a longer punch that I can buy to do this?