Getting ready to set up my Dana 60

I've got a Dana 60, strange 35 spline axles, 4.56 pro gears and a spool.
I am thinking about taking the spool into work and machining a bit of the press off of the bearing surface so the bearings can come off and on to set up the gears without having a pain in the ***. Anybody have experience doing this?
I don't have the original carrier to see what it was shimmed at