Push rod punctured pan on clutch arm...

[my kids took the truck]

I found another post with the exact same issue and solved the same, with an acorn nut and some all thread. They used a steel acorn nut and grease. They also talked JB weld to plug the hole but I didn't see if they actually tried it. I found that brass acorn nuts wear too fast. I was constantly adjusting the clutch. Last week my throwout bearing puked ball bearings and froze from being out of adjustment so frequently (of course while my wife was driving). I get to tear it apart and fix it the right way now, and get a new pressure plate etc.

https://www.bangshift.com/forum/forum/bangshift/tech-section/1119778-clutch-fork-repair-84-c10

 

[my kids took the truck]

a couple of months after that last post in 2018 the throwout bearing puked on my wife in the middle of a busy intersection--from being out of alignment so frequently while trying to find a solution to that pivot point it burned up and I found ball bearings were on the bottom of the bell housing--so the throwout stopped turning and that isn't good

K5 sat for all of 2019, 2020, 2021... it is 2022 and I am on it

 

[imiceman44]

a couple of months after that last post in 2018 the throwout bearing puked on my wife in the middle of a busy intersection--from being out of alignment so frequently while trying to find a solution to that pivot point it burned up and I found ball bearings were on the bottom of the bell housing--so the throwout stopped turning and that isn't good

K5 sat for all of 2019, 2020, 2021... it is 2022 and I am on it

I just saw this post and yes I had that problem before with the rod punching through.
I made a different rod from a carriage bolt that I ground the edges on so it became more like a ball than a spear like the original.

 

[my kids took the truck]

I just saw this post and yes I had that problem before with the rod punching through.
I made a different rod from a carriage bolt that I ground the edges on so it became more like a ball than a spear like the original.

Just a note here for anyone else that comes across this: go with the carriage bolt fix, do not use allthread and a brass acorn nut--the brass wears out too fast and the shoulders of the acorn moves adjustments all over the place as it wears