THIS.
If it’s safety wired wrong wouldn’t it be trying to loosen the nut if their is tension on the wire?
Use wet bread and a bolt or something the same size as the input to get that pilot out if you don’t have a tool bro. get the bread real wet, mash it into the pilot until you can’t get any more in. Put the bolt on the hole, and hit it with a hammer. You may have to do this a bunch of times because the bread is going to compress a certain amount. Keep packing it until the pilot bearing is in your hand.