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Re: Push Rods

To: Beth Butters <bbutters@dmi.net>
Subject: Re: Push Rods
From: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:57:22 -0700
Beth,
I searched the web and couldn't come up with Smith (we use to run them
in the Desoto), however Crane Cams do have adjustable push rods.

Tom

Beth Butters wrote:
> 
>                          Does anyone have the phone number or address for  
>SMITHS  Adustable  Push Rods , is there any other manufacturer?  L. Kvach 
>Butters
> 
> ----------
> From:  John Beckett[SMTP:landspeedracer@email.msn.com]
> Sent:  Saturday, July 10, 1999 4:37 PM
> To:  Land Speed List
> Subject:  Connecting rods
> 
>     Just a thought. If aluminum connecting rods work well in Top Fuel and
> other Blown applications why would they be any less acceptable in normally
> aspirated applications? As Tom Bryant says you can break anything. Of all
> the Rod failures that we have collectivly experienced how many were truely
> attributable to the actual fatigue of the rod itself? Or was it something
> else like oiling, or improper clearence, or poor rod bolts, etc.?
> 
>     John Beckett

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