broke crower rod:(

MarkBroviak

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Yikes, sorry to hear that! Carillo's are the the only rods we use and we have never had a single issue with them. I'm old school, I find something that works for me and I don't go looking for something else if I'm not having an issue. Same reason I am only using Oval race cast pistons, until they fail me no reason to try all these new billet pistons being offered up on the market today. Seen far to many issues lately and these things are not cheap to play with...:mad:
 

770JOHNNYW

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anyone wanna get together on the issue I think as expensive as this stuff is it should not be let go. I have a truck down and can't afford a 3k set of rods. something is gonna happen
 

Awenta

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I'd be going for a refund not a replacement. After delongs failure I was wary. Now there is no way I'd recommend Crower rods.

Save a few hundred bucks for this? No Thanks.

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delong_1

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anyone wanna get together on the issue I think as expensive as this stuff is it should not be let go. I have a truck down and can't afford a 3k set of rods. something is gonna happen

I'm interested. I didn't bother since I assumed my failure was a freak occurrence but I'd definitely be interested in pushing on them to get some kind of compensation.

My failure killer two pistons, crank, cam, girdle, oil pans, block, etc. this is the reason I have my lml, I had to have my truck to move.
 

Stingpuller

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Wow!

I was waiting on pictures because I figured there would have been heat in the rod. No heat or any other problem I see. That's not good at all.
 

delong_1

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I was waiting on pictures because I figured there would have been heat in the rod. No heat or any other problem I see. That's not good at all.


Ya when I saw through the hole in the block I assumed something had seized. Once I pulled it apart that's obviously the first thing I checked and aside from the rod being destroyed all the bearings bushing etc looked pretty good
 

Burn Down

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Funny that Pat has stuffed these same rods through a block and only twisted them a little... Gotta love steel quality these days:thumb:
 

CarolinaHD

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Saw this twisted Carillo on Instagram....

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CarolinaHD

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Couldn't find a strait answer, but i was able to guess the head cracked, lost a valve, and got coolant in the cylinder.. i wouldn't worry too much.


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