I'd post a picture of the puller for you if I owned a digital camera. Talk about stuck in mid 20th century! Imagine a puller ground down around its circumference from just behind the raised shoulder that grabs the back of the bushing back towards the rear of the tool about 2". This was done by rotating the tool by hand against a floor-mounted grinding wheel. Purpose: to attempt to ease insertion inside a smaller diameter bushing. No metal ground off the raised shoulder at all. This is the tool pictured in Jim Carter, Chevs of 40's, and Classic Parts of America catalogs.
The "lightbulb moment" occurred when I realized that my problem was that I wasn't deep enough (1.5") into the bushing. I had saved old bushings from other okie jobs past and was fixated on the idea that I was pulling a 1" bushing. There's a good chance that the puller would have worked without modification from the get-go if I had only backed off the screw all the way to begin with. Still, the smaller O.D. did make for an easy insertion/extraction and I can still use the tool for 51-54 bushings in the future as its maximum diameter at the gripping point wasn't compromised.
It took me a long time to catch on to what was going on. This was a case where stubbornness paid off.
1946 Chevy pickup, 1948 Chevy suburban, 1950 Chevy pickup, 1952 GMC pickup, 1957 Chevy pickup, 1939 Chevy pickup
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