Here's a little PSA that might help someone someday.

Fairly recently I changed out the clutch master in my '89 and used the typical Chinese cast iron one that's commonly available. It came with a plastic bushing inserted in the pushrod end, similar to the stock one I removed.

Did you hear that? I said similar. Not identical! The Chinese one has four little chisel-nosed tabs that insert through the pushrod eye and lock the thing in there. It wasn't until today that I resolved to wrangle the retainer clip back onto the clutch pedal pivot and lock the two elements together as da' General intended.

Well, the clip doesn't fit onto the pivot with the Chinese bushing because those chisel nose tabs protrude farther out than the factory one! On my '89, the pivot has a milled groove around its circumference into which the clip fits. Versus the cotter pin style I think was also used in some years.

I was damned if I was going to pull the clutch master back out to address this issue so instead, I came up with a pretty handy fix. Anyone who has found themselves in this pickle post-installation can do what I did with full confidence:

I got me a sharp chisel, crawled back down into that infernal footwell, and rotated the bushing four times to position each of the tabs facing straight down, whereupon I would put my chisel against them and shear them off back far enough to leave the milled clip groove (there must be a better name for this thing) fully exposed. A sharp chisel makes easy work of it. I was then able to reinstall the retainer clip "easily" and get the hell out of there. If you've ever done this once, you know what the quotes are for.

Good luck, boys!