Force bends rods, not coolant.

 

Damn that sucks! That head and HG look like a plasma torch got held to them

as for the hydro ingestion, I would expect for that much coolant to have gotten there you would have seen evidence of it burning. Fluids def can bend **** when they get in a motor, but it generally takes lots of fluid and if you had 8 bent rods but no white smoke I'm not sure we can blame the coolant ingestion specifically. For damn sure it didn't help

 

yessir it sucks! it sucked in all the coolant in every cylinder. both heads and all pistons got a good steam clean on the last dyno run :/ hoping the degree wheel will show me something with the timing being off. this thing has a 05 5.3 motor and i think i read somewhere that the cranks can be slightly off, but cant remember which years.

 

If she hydrolocked then I for sure blame the coolant as well