How Many Bent Push Rods...
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How Many Bent Push Rods... Upon removing my heads in prepartation to install the ARE heads and cam I found 5 bent pushrods, 3 slightly bent, the fourth in a "bowlike" position and the fifth....we we will just say it resembles a "Z" better then a "I". <img src="gr_emb.gif" border="0"> <img src="gr_eek2.gif" border="0">
I was just wanting to hear abount someone elses woes. <img src="gr_stretch.gif" border="0">
I was just wanting to hear abount someone elses woes. <img src="gr_stretch.gif" border="0">
Re: How Many Bent Push Rods... Ouch! Thats pretty crazy...I would imagine you had some idea there was a problem though <img src="gr_grin.gif" border="0"> That many bent pushrods are bound to make your car run a little off <img src="gr_eek2.gif" border="0">
I think its a "go" on the shifter btw, what do the adjustable stops do anyhow? Do you have short shifter in your car now?
I think its a "go" on the shifter btw, what do the adjustable stops do anyhow? Do you have short shifter in your car now?
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Re: How Many Bent Push Rods... 8 Bent push rods 1 bent intake valve. I beleive it happend about my 3rd or 4th run with N2O. Car still ran stong but I was off by 1 sec in the 1/4 after that. I did not know until I took it apart this winter do put in the cam and rebuilt heads.
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Re: How Many Bent Push Rods... 99ragtopSS, isn't there alot of valve tapping after bent push rods? I heard your car at OSW and it sounded quite. I concerned, I have hit the rev-limiter several times and I now wonder if I too have bent a few.
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Re: How Many Bent Push Rods... [quote]Originally posted by thxone:
<strong>isn't there alot of valve tapping after bent push rods? I heard your car at OSW and it sounded quite. I concerned, I have hit the rev-limiter several times and I now wonder if I too have bent a few.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I was the lucky soul pulling pushrods from 99RagtopSS's motor... we were all in awe of how many bent ones there were. He missed a shift on the track that night... it must be when he bent them.
My car had visited the track twice as of the cam install on 8/4/01. That day we pulled two bent PR's from my car - one that was sharply bent in the middle, and the other was slightly bowed. I am in no way, shape or form rough on my car since 98% of its 30,000-mile life has been light street duty, so chances are if you've revved that motor up high with any frequency at all you've probably bent a pushrod, almost certainly if you've ever had the motor rev up violently as a result of a missed shift, etc.
The good news is that it's a 60-minute job to change out all 16 PR's. Crack the valve covers and check those PR's. I only replaced the bent ones in my motor, they're $11.59 each.
<strong>isn't there alot of valve tapping after bent push rods? I heard your car at OSW and it sounded quite. I concerned, I have hit the rev-limiter several times and I now wonder if I too have bent a few.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I was the lucky soul pulling pushrods from 99RagtopSS's motor... we were all in awe of how many bent ones there were. He missed a shift on the track that night... it must be when he bent them.
My car had visited the track twice as of the cam install on 8/4/01. That day we pulled two bent PR's from my car - one that was sharply bent in the middle, and the other was slightly bowed. I am in no way, shape or form rough on my car since 98% of its 30,000-mile life has been light street duty, so chances are if you've revved that motor up high with any frequency at all you've probably bent a pushrod, almost certainly if you've ever had the motor rev up violently as a result of a missed shift, etc.
The good news is that it's a 60-minute job to change out all 16 PR's. Crack the valve covers and check those PR's. I only replaced the bent ones in my motor, they're $11.59 each.