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Sorry but I kinda chuckled when I read the title of your post. In the late 70's my Friends and I flew down to Daytona Beach for a little vacation. My one Friend was reading a National Dragster magazine and said hey Crane Cams is nearby so he called and arranged to take a tour. We really enjoyed the tour and towards the end of it sat a little old lady hand spinning pushrods in a jig with a dial indicator and smacking them with a hammer to straighten them out. LOL at quality control at its finest.  [/quote
That sounds wacky, but it's not unusual. The rods may have been straight, but the heat treating process warps them. The fix is to bend them back to straight again. I would say in the OP's case, the cups are not perpendicular to the rods. Could be sloppy machining.
Mike Beachel
I didn't write the rules of math nor create the laws of physics, I am just bound by them.
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