Guys, i can see the how removing the rod may be alarming to some people, trust me my first GO over a year or so ago was the biggest pain to get off, yes they have extreme tolerence, but after countless GO's the methode is very simple and effertless, and GO's out of my shop have had 0 pin or pin clip failer, and no bent rods LOL. The new GO's yhou can see that the end of the rod journal is tappered more at the outside edge, when done correctly, i can pull it out with my fingers, before i had to use a tool as well, but again no failers, but it didn't look like 22racer's set up, he seems to have the confidence that it's a safe methode, so we should leave it at that.