I always preferred the bearing over a bushing until the bearing in my 428 seized and chewed up the input shaft, then spun in the crank. Ruined the hole in the crank, and chewed up the input shaft of my tranny. Started thinking the bushing wasn't such a bad idea after that. I suppose a bearing seizure is quite rare though, and I will probably chance one again in my 64 GTO. My bearing seizure was back in the mid 80's before the Chinese stuff started coming over, so it wasn't from that.
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