Stop in for a cup of coffee

Can you boil them and squeeze them to oblong the hole to get them over the eyes? Then lube the crap out of the bar to slide them into place?

Gonna make another run at it today. It is all off the car, so maybe I can rig it up in my arbor press somehow. The other day I made a couple of steel plates to try C clamps to get the bushings in the brackets. Was too awkward, Din't work. Today I'm gonna try to press the bushings into the stock brackets and then , force them over the end of the bar.