I recently acquired a 1968 chevy truck with what is probably a replacement 350 motor.
Chevy 350 fuel pump rod stuck.
Today i removed the fuel pump push rod from my 1985 305 chevy v 8.
I thought it might run if it could get fuel and spark.
Pump and mounting plate are off i can barely get a pair of channel locks on there but it wont budge.
If it won t slide out then it is either you have not removed the fuel pump mounting plate it has seized in the bore has had the end mushroomed from friction on the cam or someone has put in the wrong length bolt in the hole perpendicular to the pushrod on the front.
That s a pretty stout rod to bend or damage.
The 350 v8 doesn t have a round offset fuel pump rod drive do hicky it drives directly from a special lobe on the camshaft.
It had sat a long time and was in unknown condition.
The rod is 1 2 inch so i.
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It was stuck so bad that it has taken ten months of trying every thing i could think of to remove it.