What I had thought was going to be a bulletproof valve train failed or part of it did.

I ordered 11" semi finish push rods from Comp Cams about 3 months ago when they told me on their help line they no longer made order to length push rods.

I took them to the angine shop that did the head & block work and they saidy hadn't done it before but it should be fairly easy to cut them to 10.275 OAL and insert the other plug.

After a week I called and he said he had them cut but didn't have any way to press the plugs.

I paid $30 and took my pushrods home, I chamfered the cut end and pressed the plugs in myself. I would have preffered to have them done by a good shop I wasn't having much luck fidning one that wanted to take the work.

It would appear my aim was less than true during pressing and my cut too deep on the chamfer.

I had 6 failures out of 12. 50 percent is a pretty crappy rate of failure. Heh.

Anyway, 2 ends snapped off the rods and 4 mushroomed from where I too large of a chamfer is my guess.

They were Comp Cams 3/8s Magnum RRs with 5/16th ends.

I called Comp today to see if they could make a custom set. Rep said they had what I needed.

$137 lesson learned.

Ouch.

It's been a semi-painful first rebuild.

 

so in the end, does comp handle a custom lenght push rod? i'm going to be installing the same cam kit within about a week or so, and it sounds like you may have just saved me from the same headache.

 

According to my call tonight they do.

Or at least their rep Keith says so.