Thread: 302" Redline
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Old 03-05-2011, 08:37 AM
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High rpm downshifts can be very hard on the rods. It tends to want to pull the cap off the bottom of the rod . When you are on the gas, you are compressing the body of the rod against the crank, . . exactly what it was made for.


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