Yeah, that brings back a funny memory: when I changed my first mecanical fuel pump (I was like 16), I kept fighting that damn pushrod falling down preventing me from fully installing the pump. I finally got it done after a frustrating 35 minutes of fighting that stupid pushrod. I told my friend who happend to be WAYYY more expierenced than I about my struggle. He simply said: "Just put some wheel bearing grease on the pushrod & shove it up there & it will stick on it's own... ya' dummy" I felt pretty stupid about that one. I felt like my ol' buddy who I asked to hold the spark-plug & boot while I kicked over a dirt-bike motor once to check the spark... told him to hold it at the base of the plug where the electrode was.... he fell for it hook/line/sinker.
This has been another meaningless babbling broadcast by your friend Scooter aka, Rigsby