Pressing in A Arm bushings?

[Jebb1978]

Hello Fellas,

I was at my friend's house today (he has a press) pressing in my new PST polygraphite bushings for my 59 GMC. As we were pressing in the bushings the A arms kept bending in instead of seating the bushing properly? There had to be collectively (with my Dad my Friend's Dad, My Friend and Myself) a ton of experience working on cars and nobody had ever seen this happen before. We ended up puting various sockets and metal peices in to keep it from happening but some damage was already done. I am pretty sure that everything will work out okay. I tried cleaning out the excess paint but that didn't make any difference. They are Camaro A arms if that makes any difference ( I am running a Camaro subframe). Have you heard of this? Was I doing something wrong?