[davidimurray]

That seems strange - have a look at my gallery below, pages 4 and 5 for pics of removing mine. I removed the hub, which should slide over the splines, then the brake backplate followed by the bearing carrier. The drive shaft should now be very loose and you just need to pull and it will come out and through the hole.

Have you removed the bearing carrier? From your pic it looks like everything may still be in situ and you could be getting stuck against the carrier.

Cheers

Dave