Remove Cab floor L223

[lewmt]

Has anyone tried to remove the cab floor from a NH skid steer with foot controls? This is an L223 (2014). I have to fabricate new bolts & hold-downs for the foot pedal controls since the in-bedded nuts that hold the linkage side down are stripped. Easy project - except - it seems like the floor only goes up so high regardless of the angle I try before it gets completely wedged & doesn't want to go any higher. Is there some trick to get this to happen? Just get a bigger pry & force it? Pry only from one side or the other? I just hate that it might break if I put more pressure on it but if that's all it is...well I'll keep going bigger. Right now I am prying the front side up trying to get it past that wedge point. Any ideas?

 

[lewmt]

I was trying to get it done without removing the cab lift strut & actuator rods to the control valves. Not possible(I don't think). Now I have to get the lift strut compressed so I can get the bolts in & lined up to re-install it, where there's a will there's a way.