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Originally Posted by Tom Wells
Hi Carl,
Dunno 'bout the current crop of stock Ford rods. The ones I got in my 514 crate motor were not too good - however this was four years ago or so.
One of the rods (carefully hand-selected by trained Ford technicians) had a piece of its web missing about half the size of a dime 
If we hadn't pulled the engine apart to check that very thing, it doubtless would have grenaded the engine.
Bottom line: check the rods carefully before installing them, stock or otherwise! |
Exactly the reason I prefer to recondition rods from high mileage lux-o-barge cores. They've been seasoned in a low power, low rpm application. If a flaw had existed they would have let go before I got to them.
On the other hand,
any new rod can have a manufacturing flaw that may be obvious like yours, or may not be visible or detectable until it's hanging out the side of the block.