It can be tough to get the tranny on the pins, very tight fit. I got the tranny off (after finding the one bolt I missed on the lower back side). Hopefully the tiny amount of rust around the throw out bearing and tiny amount of roughness was causing all the noise, cause the rest of the clutch still looks brand new after about 61,000 miles. Flywheel has 331,000, never resurfaced-still looks new.

Now I've got to hold the prick up and start a bolt-fun for the back!