Anybody know where I can get a single Eagle H-Beam connecting rod for a '00 2200 engine? I just started ripping apart an engine which I was told had no problems when I bought it, but apparently one of the eagle rods is warped worse than I've ever seen a rod get warped. The guy I bought the engine from did a complete build other than the valvetrain, so I was going to put my new valvetrain in until I encountered this....now I need a new rod by Christmas. If anybody knows where I can get another performance connecting rod of any type really it would be greatly appreciated, I was hoping to do my engine swap during my 3 week christmas break.

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Eagle usually can help you out with this type of request, however, the price for a single rod will be within 75% of an entire set of 4 rods. Also, you will need to go to eagle to fulfill this type of need since no vendor will split a boxed set for you, that is for sure.

EDIT: I also would have to question the integrity of the other rods in the engine at this point as well. Without detailed information on how the damage happened you can't tell if this was an isolated issue with just that one cylinder, or was that one rod just the first to show signs of the damage/stress that was applied to all rods.



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No other rods had any damage or stress, it looked like there was just a hydraulic stress, like water was trapped in the one cylinder and just completely wrecked it. The entire head and bottom end are coming off anyways, so everything will be check out completely. I have alldata and professors with hundreds of years of experience rebuilding ohv engines to help me too. But thanks for the help anyways, I might just have to look for a used set up

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idk, to me, when it comes to the engine.. if one is bad, they're all bad.

water in one cylinder enough to bend a rod but not in the others? did rain/ coolant selectively choose only one cylinder to go into? sounds like bs to me.

were the other rods magnafluxed? visual inspection doesn't cut it on internal components.

one bad rod = all bad
one bad piston = all bad
one bad valve = all bad
one bad injector = all bad

that way you don't have to re-do the job more than once.. with other things I could see working like that, but when it comes to the engine.. you shouldn't mess around.
yea you might save money in the short term, but long term you'll lose every time.

We just did a visual inspection of the rods, nothing else really. I'm not even sure if it was water that got into a cylinder, I just figured that might be a possibly as to why just one rod would have been that bad. And from what I've seen so far, its going to be about the same amount of money to pick up one rod as it would be to get a whole new set. Eagle wanted around $300 for one, when they sell a new kit for $400. IPP sells the entire kit for just over $300, so that's what I'm probably going to have to go with anyways.

Hope is not a plan. Change is not a destination.

As the others have said, rods are all stressed VERY similarly, regardless of failure mechanism. I'd replace all of them for sure.

Any chance you could post a picture of the bad rod?




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