Alex,
I had the same problem when I restored a couple of carriers for the Museum in Fremantle.
I tried almost everything to remove the shaft from the ball/cone, but all I did in the end was to bend the shaft by applying too much pressure while trying to separate the two, in a press.
They are often rusted in very tightly, as you have found.
My solution was to find some spare suspension bogeys and cut the pieces I needed from them, ie I cut the springs off one set to get decent shafts and the shafts off another, to get the springs.
Wasteful I know, but there is often no viable alternative.
Jack
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