Ever gotten money back from a machine shop?

That's gnarly. And you could have totally seen those cracks from the top. Meaning, he should have seen those cracks and known he totally screwed that bushing install. Especially because he obviously knew it was tight (because he told you it was!). So, he should have inspected it to see why. I'd have a hard time going back there no matter what, that's amateur hour crap right there. How the hell do you send that out and not expect it to come right back? And, how do you know it's tight and not fix the damn thing? Is he running a self service machine shop? "Well, the bushing is too tight but I figured I'd just take your money for the install and let you figure out how to fix it yourself". :wtf:

I mean, lets say the bushing really was just tight. No botched install, no cracks, just off on the tolerances. Did he not think that it was his job to make it right? He installed it, he's the machine shop, he owns it. Ream the bushing and make it right. That crap happens all the time. What does he do if one of the main bearings is tight? Just slap it in and call it a day?

I thought the same thing. In all fairness, we could have helped the cracking along while trying to(briefly) install the shaft. We stopped once we noticed how tight it was. What bums me out is that he knew it was really tight and didn't bother to investigate further. After we started poking around it became obviously rather quickly that a piece of the old bushing was still in the bore.