I tried tapping it in and currently have it wedged at an angle, can't get it to go any more so think I'm going to have to use real force to get it back out. I know I didn't have this big an issue last one I put in. Not sure if the crank is actually drilled for the original style bushing and didn't have one handy to measure against, have fought the bronze bushing battle with an undrilled crank so many times I wanted the easy way out - seems like I didn't find it this time.

The best option is to make a bushing that uses the torque converter register. If I could takes pics I woull post up how I do it.

I never use roller bearings on the input. I know it's all the rage, but then again, so is hip hop. I have repaired about 25-30 input shafts that got jacked up by roller pilot bearings. And in the end, I end up making my own bushings. So I just make a bushing that uses the TQ register, as I said above. Then you don't have to worry if the crank was finished drilled for the pilot bushing.

Any freshman level machinist can measure and make a bushing. I'd bet there are many ltttle "home shop" guys within a 15-20 drive of your house who can do it, let alone a regular machine shop.

IIRC the 4 liter jeep engines use a pilot bearing that sets in the tc register on our older cranks!

Imput shaft might be to soft for a roller bearing, more suitable to bronze