New balancer won’t press on

So I removed the front cover today and BOOM! The balancer slid right on. The problem I was having was an interference problem with the front cover. I had calipered the crank snout and the ID of the balancer and everything looked good so that’s where my confusion came in. The balancer itself was fine until I took the extra .002 out of it. Now it’s too big (FFS!) I’ll order up a new balancer and go from there. Next time the front cover is staying loose until the balancer is on. Anybody else ever run into this issue?
Thanks for all the replies.