It worked!

[b5blue]

  For years I've heard of extracting a pilot bushing by packing it with grease and pounding something the size of the center hole to have the grease push the bushing out. In a pinch today I found a 1/2" drive ratchet handle that fit and using a grease gun filled the cavity. Half a dozen shots refilling and BINGO bushing out! 

[AKcharger]

 

[GreenMachine]

Didn't work for me last year when I tried it for the first time. I used a socket with a dime taped to the end. Pounded on it several times and all it did was made the dime concave. So now I'm out a dime too. Ended up using a cold chisel, took about 5 minutes.

[John_Kunkel]

From my own experience, and that of others, the grease packing trick works sometimes and sometimes not. I believe it works best if the bushing is not fully seated in the crank counterbore and the grease pressure has an end surface to bear on.

[66FBCharger]

It didn't work for me. I had to cut the bushing in several places, then split it with a chisel to remove it.

[Nacho-RT74]

why just don thread in a bolt and pull it out ?

two options for this:

thread in and simply pull or...

threat in up to the crank hole end and keep threading in... it could be pulled out like a nut through the bolt threads