isn't a pushrod supposed to be straight? =D

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11-20-2005, 02:16 PM

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ouch

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11-20-2005, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Armageddon

another 500 miles and it would have snapped... You can see where it was rubbing the head something awful. That spot would have been where it snapped. Like he said, it pulled right out. Nobody believed me, they thought I bent it after I pulled it out...

haha hell ya
maybe that rod looks like one of the many in my foot
we'll see after next surgery

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11-21-2005, 01:45 AM

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Props man. Props.

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11-21-2005, 02:27 PM

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That looks about like the one I found in my motor. Ticked alot and ran like crap, but would still burn the tires off

http://pictureposter.allbrand.nu/pic...shrod.jpg.html

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11-21-2005, 03:30 PM

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I had that happen to me but mine snapped in two but i was lucky there was no damnge to the motor.

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11-21-2005, 03:32 PM

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Where's the bent one?

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11-21-2005, 08:52 PM

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Reading the title to this thread, I laffed my @$$ off!!! Way to be a good sport about it all, bud.

You know you're gonna have to replace that thing, now.

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11-21-2005, 10:21 PM

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Whatever, you guys are weak. I've straightened pushrods bent worse than that and reused them.... in a v18 engine... with 12,000hp and 14 4-barrels!

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You know you're gonna have to replace that thing, now.

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11-21-2005, 11:25 PM

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Reading the title to this thread, I laffed my @$$ off!!! Way to be a good sport about it all, bud.

You know you're gonna have to replace that thing, now.

already replaced