coryc85

Perhaps your pilot bearing is fused to the end of your input shaft, and when you pried the tranny back the bearing came out of the flywheel and is now stuck on the end of the shaft and it won't fit through the hole in the clutch disc. I've never seen that happen, usually they are stuck in the flywheel, but hey you never know.

Maybe try spray lube like corax suggested, but I don't know if you could even get it in there behind the clutch.