Thread: Connecting rod "Please Help"

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Originally Posted by Hoss Blazer

So they came in truck and Marine applications, so any truck that came w/ a gen 4 bbc would have them? I need to run over to my parts department and look in the catalog then! Why would you run 4 car rods and 4 trucks rods?

well i seen it that way . why GM ran out of one rod ? or the rebuilder just used what they had hard to say but i seen it. as for the rod yes i seen them in marine use BUT why would you buy one new rod from gm when you can buy a set of 8 used ?or one or two? this rod could be or not listed as a HD 3/8 rod from GM? there no assurance thats the rod you going too get ? i seen that rod in tall decks as well but seen 454 come with thumbs and the other of the two 3/8 rods . i would not buy a new rod from gm they know make a thinner rod beam in the mark 5/6 engines. you really need to make shure your getting a thumb rod from GM .like i said i know i have some used cores some were set up for floating pin end so if i have a press pin one then i will sell you a rod that can be rebuilt thats not been burt up .if the rest were hurt your rod s centers could be all over the map as the rods get shorter as they get cut to put the big end back to size