DO you hAVE to buy the special rods or can I just go to Home Depot and buy a pair of aluminum rods and use them?

 

i went to home depot and got mine,worked great.

 

Get the wood dowels from Home Depot. They are .47 cents each vice the $80+ dollars you will spend on the rods.

They work just fine.

R/

Frat

 

+1 on the wooden dowels

 

I dont know if I could do that!? That is so cheap, I would feel like I was cheating my wallet. Hell, I would not even use my wallet, just be pulling the change outta my pocket, lol.

Man, sounds good. Want to put a regular cam in for now and maybe change out later.

Thanks

 

This is VERY sad, csmc PLEASE use your search feature before you put anything made of wood inside your engine

PS. csmc and fratsit, your post just made it into my sig

 

yeah get the metal ones please buddy,the aluminum is very cheap and wont leave **** in your motor

 

Its been done before, its the feedback I got when I asked the same question and it works just fine. As long as you dont ram them in there and try to break them they will slide in and slide out. You can also buy a metal rod of the same diameter and shave down one side.

R/

Frat

 

Guess they got owned huh?


I have seen the 5/16" wooden dowels used with no problems. Not the preferred method but they worked fine.

 

I couldn't even tell you how many people I know that use wooden dowels. Just don't be a moron and ram them in.

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My approach [with wooden rods] has always been "if it doesn’t fit, force it. If it breaks, it needed to be replaced".

Ben T.

 

You guys have honestly used Wooden-Dowel in place of a Hardened metal pushrod? I wonder who had teh ***** to be the first one to try this.

 

Please, who said I WAS gonna do that with wood? Very viable option as if you got a splinter of wood in there, it would get chewed up much more easily than a shaving of aluminum, but, I am not so sure what one would do if the wood snapped. Well, i know what one would do............. cry! I would go with wood IF I thught I would make it out alive, but, with my luck, it would not snap in just one place but like 3 or 4 places. I would MUCH rather have a little shaving of wood in my engine as opposed to a metal shaving, not saying that either one WOULD leave anything behind.

 

Probably someone with more common sense than extra money. Ask around about this LS1IMPULSE. I KNOW I'm not the only one who's comfortable using wooden dowels- there are plenty out there.

Ben T.

 

Yes....I did. Lets agree to disagree.

I will be the first to admit that I had my reservations when I started to put them in, but with a little attention to detail and care it works fine.

R/

Frat

 

Wood Huh, hmmmmmm, would engine temp, pressure, etc, etc not come into play for premature failure of such a material due to the expansion and contraction properties of wood vs. Aluminum considering the heat properties of an internal combustion engine . I'm no engineer but I learned that in science in elementary and middle school.
Go buy some well constructed, reputable rods that have been proven to work for your application. Sometimes what appears to be cheap is really just that and can cost you so much more in the long run.
Just my $.02.

 

I guess you learn something new everyday,Dont think i would be comfortable doing this to save $100, and i would cringe everytime I got on the gas but I would really like to how many people have actually done this

 

Not that that was directed at me because I never said I "would" use wood, but, bang your engines cylinder/cam or bearing as hard as you can with a peice of wood, then, bang it with an aluminum rod as hard as you can and tell me who comes out the winner for no marks on the engine.

 

Guys, you're a bunch of fools. He's talking about the rods used to hold the lifters up while changing the cam. Not as pushrods. Friggin' tards!

 

Thank god someone cleared that up

 

i was laughing about the same thing.