[TheForge] Jet tailstock disassembly?

[Andrew Vida]

I've been making jack posts for the house and the tops are 3" round 
stock, 1" thick, with a 1" hole drilled.  So far I've made 6 of 14 but 
it's killing me.  I am using a friend's Jet lathe and the tailstock feed 
is SO tight I can barely move the wheel.  Last week I tore it apart but 
was unable to get the quill out.  I got the handwheel off, then the 
retained; unscrewed the lead; removed the lead nut, removed what I 
thought was the stop bolt that screws into to tailstock body on the 
bottom and engages a slot cut into the bottom of the quill.  The whacked 
it with a lead mallet.  Quill is REALLY tight in the hole, but moves to 
a point and then stops dead.

The only thing I did not do was remove the tailstock body from its base. 
  I was hoping to avoid this so as not to have to re-center it, which 
can be a great PITA.

Do any of you know what I might be missing?  I want to get this thing 
apart so I figure out why it is so tight and perhaps lap it in a bit 
better if perchance it is necessary.

Thanks.