I don't believe this is correct. Everything I have ever been told, and from
what I have read on ARP website and others is that you should:
first; chase and clean the holes. Second; well lubricate the studs. Third;
FINGER tighten the stud only.
Not being an ME, I really don't want to start an argument, but from racing
to street, I've never heard to torque a stud, just the opposite.
Bill
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I discussed this exact topic with a professional mechanical engineer (and
Jaguar owner) a few years back. He said that for maximum strength, the stud
should not only bottom in the hole, but be torqued into place. This helps
spread the load into the deeper threads in the head/block, and prevent the
top thread from tearing out. (This assumes that the stud is a higher
tensile material than the head/block, which is normally the case.) The
whole thing still seems counter-intuitive to me, but he was a good ME
(retired now, I believe).
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