Look what I found, Broken pushrod

Pulling apart my 340 to swap cams. Pulled the 273 rockers and pushrods out and found one pushrod had the ball end come loose from the tube. The end was laying in the lifter after pulling out the pushrod. The tube looks like it was beat up a little, so it has been run like this for a while. This is a solid cam it came off of. Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket?


I have broke my share of stuff but never had that one. Whose push rod is it? I can tell you that is one of the reasons I don't lash any cam that loose. If I have to be looser than .020 I get a different stick.

As an example, my current cam lashes at .014/.016 and that is cold.