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Re: Is Ford the only manufacturer that 'snaps' their conn. rods??
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 12/7/2000

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Its refered to as fracturing(simple enough), the rods are made from sintered [...] there made they are shot peened to increase hardness and to clean them [...] fracture area is laser marked and fractu... Login to read more.