two broken pushrods

[Kevinsluminaeuro]

ok so i went to work yesterday took the highway car ran awesome, 4 hours later on my lunch i start up my car so i can stay warm, and damn theres one LOUD ass ticking come from my engine,ok shut it off check oil, oils good, revved up fine all that good stuff so i figured hm must just be cold. well later on when i went to go home start up the car now the ticking is way worse then before get on the highway lets just say i hada 3 cyclinder couldnt even get over 40. so after almost dieing on the highway and getting home i brought it to a shop today and they tell me i broke both pushrods on cyclinder 2, what the hell would cuz 2 pushrods to broke on the same cyclinder at the sametime, just curious if i should get them all replaced or just those 2, they quoted me 189 to get those two replaced including guides

[Euro]

189 isnt THAT horrible....i'd do it

[SigEpCutlass]

that is an incredibly low price for some pretty major engine work like replacing pushrods!!!! It's more than a fair price and I think you'd be insane not to go for that if its a reputable shop.

[Kevinsluminaeuro]

yea its one of the biggest towing/auto work shops in the city so i didnt think that was a bad price myself, but im just curious what causes pushrods to snap like that?

[Dan94Z34]

falty part. Reving it way to high. Could be a lot of different things.

[Brian P]

are they going to check out the lifters, valves and the rest of the motor, or just R&R the pushrods?

[92 GP]

yea definately have them checkout your valvetrain, especially the part on the #2 cyl.

It could be from it getting hot/constant high RPMs. Or it could be from bad rockers, or something.

 

I say fuck it, and just get new, lightweight Pushrods, a cam, new lifters, springs, retainers, etc etc.

[94CutlassSLCoupe]

that is an incredibly low price for some pretty major engine work like replacing pushrods!!!! It's more than a fair price and I think you'd be insane not to go for that if its a reputable shop.

 

If they aren't taking the intake off, replacing the pushrods is fairly simple...but IIRC they probably have to take the intake off on a 3.1 MPFI to get the rear valve cover off and be able to access the rocker arms.

 

Of course, this is work i would do myself...so i probably shouldn't be saying anything

[Pabz]

Look dood, here's my prediction. $189 later, rods replaced w/ guides. no ticking for a while. Couple days, Ticking. AWWW shit

 

Then $650 to replace broken lifters and replace "new" rods and "new" guide.

 

for $189 i doubt they are taking off the LIM, just taking off valve cover.

 

Its a risk dood, but you might be good just replacing the rods, but rods dont break for no reason. Make them check the valve springs and rocker arms. Get a compression test after this is done too.