Reply to "GT5 Cleveland Bend push rod"

Welcome to the club - I chased a problem with bending pushrods for over a year, and to find the REAL cause is not easy.

By FAR, the best route is to have an *experienced* Ford mechanic look at the car. Preferably someone with a lot of 351C experience - who works on Mustangs and so forth.

My problem was caused by several small factors that all added up to bending pushrods every 500 kilometers. My (new) heads had been improperly assembled, with the spring heights incorrect. The springs were not appropriate for my camshaft. The pushrod guides needed to be modified, since the "holes" that guide the pushrods were slightly off-center and were sideloading the pushrods. I don't remember what else I had wrong, but there were a lot of things to check that only an experienced mechanic will know. Pushrod length may be a problem, for example, if you have an adjustable valvetrain .

Good luck, this can be a difficult problem to track down if it is not obvious

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Charlie McCall
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
"Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
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