Thanks for your help Bob.
This task required me to go shopping for a pair of needle nose vice grips that would fit into the area and grab the pin. Knocked it out just as you said.
The bale pin isn’t quite the same as the cover latch pin, which does have a c-clip. The cover latch bale, (part number 203593), has a pin (part number 203592), which it turns out is not retained by a c-clip, but rather is retained via friction by the force required to squeeze it through the gaps in the latch cover bale. I had ordered new latch cover bales and was not going to use them as I was afraid I might damage the latch covers in the process. When I saw how much the old ones had been distorted after comparing them to the new ones I decided to go for it. The bale pins came out with no issues by using a nail punch I had handy. Care must be taken when reinstalling the pins, as the tiny cover latch bale spring (part number 203591) must go in the way it was and there is some potential for damaging it. Definitely harder to put the pins back in but it’s doable.
