@stevebuchanan posted:Now that the bushing is out, I can see that tapping it and driving out with a small bolt is the most practical way to do it.
It is the least traumatic but you need to have the tap and bolt to do it. It's one of those "school of hard knocks" lessons.
It is kind of hard to do with any kind of a roller bearing in there.
You really want to reduce the amount of any kind of pounding on the crankshaft. If you chew up the seating pocket for the new bearing, you have chewed up the crankshaft. You don't want that. I think that is obvious?
The few times that I have had to change the bearings, I anticipated needing a bolt once the bearing was threaded but what happened was that the tap was enough to jack it out. Caution should prevail there though.
You do not want to break off the tap in the bearing.