Center section removal

So I'm pulling the center section on my 8-3/4 to swap up to 4.10 gears. And the thing absolutely will NOT budge. Whoever put it together. Put so much RTV on it theres a 1/4 thick bead of the stuff around the housing. It's STUCK.

Things I've done:

Drive shaft off
Axles out
Nuts removed
Studs pushed into the housing
Gasket remover on the RTV and scraped as much away as I could
Tried my small hand held pry bar that I can actually get in there with
Jacked it up just before the flange on the carrier and cap section
Banged on it with a deadblow hammer while it was jacked up
I even tried bouncing it (carefully mind you, i was a 1/4 off the jack stands and everything was supported) while jacked up on the carrier and cap section

Still hasn't budged. Being jacked up, with no studs, and the weight of the car on the center section and bouncing it didn't break it loose at all. Which really surprised me.

Any tips/tricks? I've pulled a dozen center sections out and never had this problem. At least the studs pushing in as a last resort always got it free. This time it had next to zero effect. I'm thinking it's just so much RTV that it's glued. Even when you push the studs out and you look in the hole, you see a ton of RTV. I'm about to grab the head gun and run it along where the RTV is and see if that has any affect.

Any advice is as always appreciated.