904 Column Shift Linkage Grommet Installation

Thanks, trying really hard to understand your answer. Are you suggesting I build kind of a mini vice out of those parts and squeeze it in that way? I was prowling around my garage for a vice that would fit in there among the header pipes and firewall.
I had a pair of channel-lock pliers on it for a half-hour on Saturday, Sunday my hand no worky any more...I know, I'm a desk jockey by day.