Searching for pushrods..

Max Headflow — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:03:20 GMT

I've come back from the dead. After getting influenza A, about 2 days later my left leg locked up. Any pressure on the butt, hamstring, quad or calf and pain. Went to emergancy and saw my doctor twice. Neither were any help. For 2 weeks it was incredibly painful walk or sit. I've gotten to the point where I can stand for a while and sit for short periods.. Needless to say the pan has been sitting on the lift.

Today is my first day actually standing and working.

I started back on the motor by rebuilding the pushrods. The threads on the adjuster were munged up and started to clean them up. I noticed that the push rod ends were nice and smooth but looking closer, they are severely worn. A radius gauge shows them being somewhere between 15/32 and 1/2 inch diameter and not very round. Remember, this motor had oil passages plugged to the heads. The rocker arms, valves and guides were all trashed. I'd looked at the pushrod ends and they looked good but come to find out they are don't have a good radius at the end.

So I've started a search for new pushrods.. I'm having trouble finding original style steel. Anyone know of a source? V twin mfg might have some Sifton ones. Hard to tell. I can get aluminum ones from Colony.

Any recommendations?

Frame Identification

Nimbus46 — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:20:37 GMT

Need some help figuring out what year frame I have.
It came with a 56 duo-glide I purchased last year. The 56 engine is in a later swing arm frame.
I don't see any numbers on this frame or Don't know where to look.
Thanks.

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Searching for pushrods..

Frame Identification