Wes Littrell saying hello

That sucks man. How many passes on the rods?

Welcome, sorry to hear bout your motor

I had around 200 1/8 mile passes.I was going to change them this winter, but they didn't make it.The funny thing is that the best we can tell the beam didn't fail.It pulled the threads out then the crank chopped the rod in half.This engine had broke a couple oilpumps and had been apart a few times.I bet if they would have been left alone they would have made this winter no problem.I cured that problem with a Kaase pump.Wes

Wow Wes, that's really painful to hear.

We can rebuild it:

Faster

Stronger

Weld all the cracks up, sleeve it and put a Pro Comp sticker on it. Someone on ebay would buy for sure....

Shit Wes thats a sucky deal on the block man. Hope the new rods treat ya better buddy. Hoping for a speedy recovery for the truck.

Sucks to hear Wes. Good to hear Lem got you hooked up.


Cody, what are you doing on here? Shouldn't you be out winning rounds in that bracket machine?

That really sucks Wes, Glad you are grtting a good start on it before the Bash. Coming to the Bash w/o the ole Black truck would be like having a family reunion dinner w/o desert.
Good luck Buddy

jbozzelle wrote:Sucks to hear Wes. Good to hear Lem got you hooked up.


Cody, what are you doing on here? Shouldn't you be out winning rounds in that bracket machine?

John,

The bracket season is over up here in wisconsin. Kinda cold....wish I was able to be racing in november. The local race season ends the first week of october

Good, then you can come help me finish up the car... It's still warm down here.

Sorry to hear Wes, I'm having the same problem, but I didn't have a two thou. block, good luck see you at the reunion, I mean bash, Rick made me hungry.

Wes Littrell wrote:I had around 200 1/8 mile passes.I was going to change them this winter, but they didn't make it.The funny thing is that the best we can tell the beam didn't fail.It pulled the threads out then the crank chopped the rod in half.This engine had broke a couple oilpumps and had been apart a few times.I bet if they would have been left alone they would have made this winter no problem...

Yes sir, that's how they fail. Especially if they've been re-torqued a few times. We won't put more than 50 runs on a set of aluminum rods and we run the lightest components we can buy. I think your choice of a steel replacement rod is a good idea.

Oh, and welcome to the forum

Welcome aboard Wes... Glad you could make it... Sorry to hear about your engine...







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