Pilot Bushing

Professor Fate said
No such animal AFAIK, I suspect you were misinformed.
There's nothing wrong with the roller bearing, so I'm not really sure why you would want to revert to a bushing. The bearing I pictured is what was used by the factory...

Ah I bet there’s a bushing somewhere with those dimensions, but you’d have to search it by dimensions and not application. Because that roller has those dimensions for a reason so there’s probably a bushing that fits the same dimensions. But actually finding it would be a whole different story.

cwkerr007 said
Yes sir it is what the factory used and this is just a perdonal preference for me I've always used bushings without a single failure and with out fear of tweeking that edge of that needle bearing. I'm sure the factory had there reasons for the change to bearings but it wasn't because of prior bushing failure , more thsn likely it was assembly line cost but I'm happy with bushings I'll be long gone by the time it wears iut lol

I get it, I prefer bushings myself. If the roller goes bad it takes the input shaft with it. If the bushing goes bad you just change the bushing.

The factory uses rollers because of tolerances, it seems like a better idea from an engineering standpoint because it’s easier to maintain nice tight tolerances. But yeah when the roller fails your input shaft is junk almost immediately. If the bushing starts to go and you drive it a long time you may eventually take out the input bearing or internal transmission stuff, but that doesn’t happen overnight like the roller taking out the input.