Green Bearings on Moser axles

I pulled the chunk and the thrust block is in there. I talked to Moser and they said either pull the spacer/thrust block out or trim the axles down. Why don't they cut them a little shorter to begin with? Seems like it would be better to avoid all these issues with people leaving the buttons and spacers in there, and then the axles would work with or without them installed.

Anyway, it looks like I need to pull the carrier out of the chunk to get the roll pin out, to pull the spiders pin, to pull out the thrust block.... Seems like I can do it on the bench here, I won't be changing anything on the chunk, I can mark the bearing adjusters where they are and put it back together in one swoop. Anyone know off hand the torque setting on the carrier caps?

thanks