Well I got the hubs off last night. Little tough. The diagrams I looked at shows the bearing caps held on with bolts, mine were pressed on. One refused to come off and I had to destroy it. Other than that all looked good. Bearings and races looked good. More grease than I expected, but I see where you would want a lot of grease on the bull gear.

Should I pull the bull gear out first then the rest of the assemble or leave it or does it matter?

Is that grease anything special or just plain axle grease?

Next step pull the rest of the hub assembly.