Pushrods

[icanfixall]

I was asked a question about pushrods but.. I don't recall what is correct. Does the hard ball end go up in the rocker or the soft ball? I have an idea but want to know for sure. I do know most upper balls are a copper color and some pushrods actually have a mark telling you what end goes up. Thanks all.

 

[riotwarrior]

Hard ball up...it receives the rocking motion of rockerarm

 

[MTKirk]

From the 1987 Factory service manual "copper colored end of pushrod goes toward rocker arm".

 

[Hydro-idi]

Thanks for the info!

 

[OLDBULL8]

If the copper color is gone, say on a used one, take a file and if it slides over the ball, that's the hard one, the soft one will have a mark on it, do it on the side, not the top of the ball.

Use a double cut fine ******* file.

 

[Hydro-idi]

If the copper color is gone, say on a used one, take a file and if it slides over the ball, that's the hard one, the soft one will have a mark on it, do it on the side, not the top of the ball.

Use a double cut fine ******* file.

What about a rat ******* file? Haha gotta love the names of those things.
I bought new pushrods and it's very evident which tip is copper colored. Thanks for the help

 

[icanfixall]

Ever hear the term in the oil fields or high raise workers called Bull *****.... We used them for turbine case alignment tools.

 

[ironworker40]

Ever hear the term in the oil fields or high raise workers called Bull *****.... We used them for turbine case alignment tools.

http://www.kleintools.com/catalog/broad-head-bull-pins/1-14-32-mm-broad-head-bull-pin
I have never heard it called that.

 

[79jasper]

We called it a spud bar.

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[icanfixall]

A spud bar or as we called it. A spud wrench had a box end opposite the pointed end. Once in a while I even saw an open end spud wrench but very seldom. They were mostly used when erecting the metal sky scrappers. The also were used lots in the power generation field I worked in. The bull ****** had nearly the same taper on both ends. They were sized for the hole you were trying to align in two turbine case halfs or other large machinery. You drive them in to align the cases anddrop in the studs around them. then continue driving them thru the cases. Nice tool really. Most of the time a 4 lbs single jack was all you needed to drive them in. Much easier to use than a spud wrench because you had to push on the wrench. The bull ***** did all the work of prying for you. Just continue hitting it till things lined up. No holding or pushing.

 

[79jasper]

Ours were spud wrenches. We had a few on each side of the truck. Lol
But they were referred to as spud bars.
We mainly used them when putting axles under mobile homes to align the spring with the hanger.

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