I agree with Denny's last post:
if you cannot get it out using as described in the Shop Manual (the "NOTE" technique is very clever), and you intend to have any of the work done by a shop (that knows what they are doing), you might as well take the axle assembly to the shop and let them disassemble the parts. With proper equipment, and the axle assembly off the truck, the time involved in disassembly by a good shop is very short.
