Bennyboy96
New Member
Hi guys, I have a pushrod length question.I freshened up my 65 383 only to find I had no compression when it was time to fire it up. I dug through my parts boxes to find that they parts supplier sent me 68 and up lifters. No biggie. I did a search and found the different lengths for the years. But I decided to measure what I needed so I cobbled up a length tool with old rods and tapped for thread rod. Stock length for 68 and up is 8.575 mine measure 8.400 with no preload. The only thing I did was install a small RV cam, cleanup heads which took .007, had a valve job done. Is it possible that they are that much shorter or is something else wrong? Thanks in advance Ben