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NO Other damage was done, it must have bent when we had them overtightened when we installed the cam a few months ago, than from the daily driving you can see all the cracks from stress, and this week it snapped, but the bottom ended up resting inside hte lifter valley, and hte bottom of the pushrod was resting on the valley bottom also, so no damage was done to the cam or lifter.

Went ot hte local autozone, got a new standard 350 pushrod for $1.50, put her in, bolted everything back up, runs like a champ, never ran this good before.

Dont worry we will eventually replace all the pushrods with a nice set once we do the 383 shortblock, but its a nice temporary fix that will get me to school tommorrow smile.gif

great, could have been worst,Id change the oil,ya never know--glad it works out--67rat

yeah my dad said the same thing, tommorrow i gotta give that rocker arm bolt a 1/4 turn its a bit loose, and after that ill change the oil.

glad you got her straiten out and not to much damage either.thanks for the updates

WOW, thats one UGLY pushrod....

Told ya' it might be a compression problem. smile.gif

Glad it wasn't too serious graemlins/hurray.gif graemlins/hurray.gif

When you change that oil, cut the filter open and check for metal too. You just never know.

If you can pice that pushrod together and roughly check its overall length against a straight one that might give you an indication if there is any metal missing.

Rob

its pieces together perfect, anything missing is extremely tiny and most likely is in hte filter.

so is this the miss you thought you had because of the strange PCV set up you're running?

well the pcv setup was just a possible problem, but i put hte old valve covers on too with the old pcv setup until we do hte 383 stroker...