anyone who has bent pushrods, please help
anyone who has bent pushrods, please help I missed a shift yesterday. And the car immediately began stumbling. When I made a turn to park the car. It stalled out and wouldn't restart. Today, I took the pushrods out and I had four bent ones.
My question is, would the bent pushrods have caused the car not to restart or to stall out, or should I be looking for another problem?
Also this was a stock motor on a 98 SS. Do I have to worry about bent valves or damaged pistons? or just replace the pushrods and go.
My question is, would the bent pushrods have caused the car not to restart or to stall out, or should I be looking for another problem?
Also this was a stock motor on a 98 SS. Do I have to worry about bent valves or damaged pistons? or just replace the pushrods and go.
Sometimes you'll be able to tell a bent valve if you take the rocker arms off and put a straight edge across the top of the valve stems. If one is bent it will probably be lower than the others. You could also do a compression or leakdown test cause a bent valve will not seal. When I bent a pushrod it just ticked really loud, didn't cause the engine to run bad.
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I have went through my fair share of pushrods. I am a pro at installing them now lol. Ya it could cause it to stall and not restart... Happened to me once. Get a few new pushrods and becareful of miss shifting. I can ship u 5 pushrods... (good ones) for whatever it will cost to ship... u pay the 5 bucks it costs to ship and ill send u them. But its up to u. The ones i have... have about 20k on them... Just let me know man... Where are u located by the way.. maybe i or u could take a friendly trip. My e-mail is mooley@comcast.net and my aim name is mooley09.
