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Installing iron mountain heads and i am having a brainfart- :o --
Is the exhaust pushrod the thicker one of the two pushrods?

why is it thicker anyway?

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theyre all the same


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at least i thought so


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there is defiently a size difference. By the way this is for a 23hp vanguard


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Post a picture, I expect they should all be the same.

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Thanks Cody, I didnt know that.


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found it. vanguard v-twins--- aluminum pushrod = exhaust
steel pushrod = intake

I guess the 35 hp engines have the same pushrods for both intake and exhaust


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Correct, 35 are the same. On a 23, the larger (fatter) rod is for exhaust side.

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The intake guidry, the intake.


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Yes, but just in case he did not know I used the proximity reference.

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