how do you get the starter on with headers?

when I took my steering apart I got out the pickel fork and hammered on it about 10 times and it didnt feel like it wanted to budge and my arm was getting tired and I BARELY tapped it and all of a sudden POP!!! it dropped right off LOL.

luckily the previous owner had went through all the suspension on the car and did new shocks and tierods and brakes and lines and so on and so on....so it wasnt 30 years worth of stuck lol.

I did however rip all my boots though so I went ahead nad replaced them with new red neopreme ones.