Preferred orientation for Manley rods?
 

I've spent the past 3 days searching for this but came up dry. Found lots of other useful info, but not the answer to this question:

Is there a preferred orientation for Manley rods?

One side has the serial number, the other side a slash for alignment(?). The stock rods have an I stamped on them to tell you which side they should face.

Sorry for this kind of question, but it is my first engine build. Likely to have a couple more of these kind of questions before I'm done. Thanks!

They are symmetrical.

Big end down.

Bearing locks to the right. (intake side)

:giggle:

Power bottom.

Thanks, Savington. They looked symmetric, but I did not want to assume they were.

:rofl:

The bearing notches should be located on the unloaded side of the big end.