help! need 331 caddy expert advice!

[mooman929]

Hello again everyone.  Hopefully this is my last question for awhile.  So I got my 331 back together except for the heads.  Looked in my parts box and there was a small rod or shaft (whatever it is) and my gut dropped.  I don't remember what its for.  The fuel pump shaft is in and the keyed shaft for the oil pump.  I have no idea what it was from.  I rebuilt the fuel pump a few months back and maybe its a used part out of the pump thay got put in the parts box? Any help is appreciated!  The picture shows the rod.  The top one is the one I'm talkin about.  The bigger one is the fuel pump rod

[Jay Friedman]

It's not anything I know of from a '49 331 motor.

[mooman929]

Thanks for the help.  If I'm not mistaken theres only 2 rods which would be the oil pump and the fuel pump correct?

[Dave Shepherd]

Not a 331 expert but, most fuel pump pushrods are not slotted or keyed as a dist/oil pump drive would be.

[mooman929]

Correct.  I have a slotted one in the oil pump/distributor and a straight one which is the bottom one in the pic.  I just dk what that other straight rod was in my parts box