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Dec 21, 2018 | 08:10 PM

jniolon

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From: Lovely Hueytown Alabama

been there done that

stolen from facebook f-100 truck page

JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE UNIQUE... DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE USEFUL !! ...CLASSIC !

Dec 21, 2018 | 09:49 PM

bobbytnm

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Careful John, you're dangerously close to offending some of the new age millennial snowflakes....lol

Great pic (well, unless they are your pushrods)

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Dec 21, 2018 | 11:04 PM

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Does that mean we can no longer sing the old Sesame Street classic, "One of these things is not like the other?"

Dec 22, 2018 | 11:21 AM

26tudor

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That's not very nice just because he bends a little to the right

Dec 22, 2018 | 11:24 AM

Fomoko1

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I had an FE pushrod bent so bad that I had a bit of a time getting it out of the intake manifold.

Dec 22, 2018 | 03:27 PM

bobbytnm

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Dang Morris, you must have been really thrashing on it.
This spring Dad's little John Deere tractor developed a miss. Its a small 3 cylinder gas engine and when you lose one cylinder you know it. It turns out that it bent a pushrod (I don't think Dad had ever adjusted the valves). I pulled the valve cover, beat the pushrod back into straight (mostly) set the valves and away we went. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it should have been replaced but coming from John Deere that was probably a $200 pushrod....lol

Bobby

Dec 22, 2018 | 03:36 PM

Tedster9

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Originally Posted by bobbytnm

Dang Morris, you must have been really thrashing on it.

Old, stale gasoline will supposedly do this too, diluted with fresh gas or not. It burns, but leaves a glue-like residue on intake valves &c that sets up after shutdown. Then the next time the engine is started, things get ugly.