looks like no one wants to touch this one?
Any way just in case anyone is interested or may experience this in the future, this is what solved the problem. We created a heat fence around the pivot shafts so as not to burn the body paint and continued spraying penetrating oil between the shaft and the spacer. Then with a braising torch applied heat to the spacer and WaLA!
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