Jon,
   Did you try packing the bearing with grease and using an old input shaft
to drive the pilot bearing out?  I've use that method a couple of times.
The old techs at the GM dealership I work at told me that trick.  It works.

                        -Keep on Busin' Jim Digennaro
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