Likely you are NOT, but are you using a socket like this?  image:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21IPLbKOdpL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

If it were me, I'd either shape the end of a piece of rod to ID of
bushing with a flat shoulder for bushing to rest on, or, use some
threaded rod, smaller than hole in bushing, put a nut with flat face
on rod, tap bushing in. It sounds like the bushing is getting started
slightly cockeyed and is jamming.

Lube bushing OD?

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:33 AM, John Meeks <vanagon@gmail.com> wrote:

>.... �I've
> filed a bevel on the leading edge and using a same sized
> socket/extension with the bushing taped to it.Can't get it more than a
> mm into the hole. hole is clean. I already lost my backup bushing so
> this is it.

-- 
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