I recently installed these brake and clutch shaft bushings on my '54 GMC and it was quite a job. I was able to insert the bushings into there respective pedal assemblies without much problem. I then marked the one bushing through the grease fitting hole and removed bushing with a bushing installation tool,so that I could drill the grease hole in the bushing. Once the bushing is installed back in the pedal assemblies they need to be reamed out with a bushing reamers until they just fit over the shaft. This is much easier said than done. The hand reamer set I was using was an antique set that my wifes grandfather bought probably before my truck was even built. I thought I have these bushings reamed out in a jiffy. Both bushings took me 6 or 7 hours to do. First problem I had was the bushings tended to spin inside the pedal assemblies, so the first thing I had to do was again remove the bushings strike the inner surface with a punch at 12, 3, 6, 9 O-Clock positions on both sides and reinstall the bushings with a bushing installation tool. That worked well for the bushing w/o the grease fitting hole. For the bushing with the grease fitting hole I had to insert the proper sized tap into the grease fitting hole of the pedal assembly and just into the hole of the bushing I had drilled out earier to keep it from spinning inside of the pedal assembly while I reamed it out. The reaming process was painfully slow, only able to remove ~1/64" with each pass (if that). One pass of the reamer took at least 30 turns to pass the reamer (~10") through the bushing. Then you readjust the reamer and run her through the process again and again and again........and again. I had to use two different size reamers to get to the right size for the shaft. When I first started I was saying I love these reamers this is slick, later that day as it getting dark and I thought my wrists were going to break I had another opinion about these @#$%& REAMERS! But they worked fine and the job is now behind me, so what if it took all day to ream two bushings and took me a week before I was able to use my wrists again due to tendonitus. My recommendation is to either live with your old bushings if they are not too bad or pay a machine shop $20-$30 dollars to do it for you. Good luck with your project.
