Thanks Stock 49 for the photo. To me that rod looks thin compaired to todays product,yet millions of Chevies ran with them with no trouble.Jay
Many did experience problems with these rods, but not because of the babbited end so much as it was the pinch bolt design that resulted in failure on these rods. Thats why the GMC rod conversion was so popular, even for just mildly modified Stovebolts. They swapped right into the babbited engines with no mods required to the rods or crank. For the later full pressure engines there was some minor fitting that had to be done, but you ended up with a bulletproof set of rods by doing it.
