Drama over. All it took was a mild warming over with a cook's crème brûlée torch.

Not only does it help make yummy deserts, but helps unstick stubborn wheel spacers!

Thanks for all your help guys, much appreciated!

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I'm not to sure using one of those at the shop would go over to well lol

If you are referring to the temperature sticks, I do not understand.
As an example, if you want the heated product to be 250 degrees F the stick will melt at + or minus one degree of that.

edit- You have never preheated or postheated your welds at the shop?

I work at a dealership. If anything needs to be heated we use a oxy acetylene torch. We rarely see welding in the shop since everything is basically bolt on.

But for general use at home a propane torch does the trick, just takes longer to heat. Used them on seized coilovers to seized tie rods.