After doing more testing and observing how Android behaves with different ActionBar scenarios, I have found a working solution. Kind of hacky, but it is the only way that I have found to work. It actually has nothing to do with the custom view...
Have you tried getActionBar().getCustomView(). SetVisibility(View. GONE);?
At this point the custom view is not null, now set it to null. :).
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