UMM... I have been taking apart my car to do a cam swap (ms3) and i just took out my pushrods and 2 of them are slightly bent and one of them was pretty bad... is this something I should seriously be worried about? The car ran great? It has about 103K. I am getting new pushrods but... Just wanting everyones input. It kinda freaked me out when I saw them... lol I was like " umm what the hell!? What if it slipped from underneath the rocker arm!? Could it have been from a previous owner overtightening the rocker arm? I dont think this would be the case because These are non adjustable... which Were surprisingly, a bitch to break loose. (esp. the last two on the pass side).
Just looking for some input guys.... anything you can tell me is much appreciated!

Thanks in advance...
-Andrew

 

The rockers are suprisingly hard to break loose- that's normal. Those push rods were probably just bent from over reving your car. That's common with the OEM stuff.

 

I never overreved my car though... and the highest I shift at is 5500. And I hear guys on here changing their limiter on stock ls1's to shift at like 6300 with no problems? Haha well I dont really care anyways b/c I am getting new pushrods w/ my package so I think it will be fine . I guess you guys will know in a couple hours hopefully My package is "out for delivery" so I should get it pretty soon....( I may be on here cursing up a storm... you'll know what happend then) haha

Well thanks for the info....

-Andrew

 

Alot of people find out that their pushrods are slightly bent, from either the previous owner or themselves over reving the motor like on a 2-3-2 accidental shift. Btw, I reved my stock cam to 6200 many many times, all of my pushrods were straight

 

6200 hahaha mine saw around 6700 or so on accident a couple times and never bent a pushrod

 

Mine, bent/broke randomly, i say randomly because at no point since ive had teh car remember over-revving or anything liek that....might have been previous owner but iono, when i took off my valve covers...look what i saw...



have no idea what caused it, was crusin home just doin like 40 on the street...all the sudden SES light blinking.... turns out it was a P0304 missfire....so we take off the valve cover and do some inspecting and this is what we found....anyone know hte chances of bending valves with that happening? im almost certain i have a few bent valves...

 

damn! lol mine doesnt look quite as bad.... lol