DeTomaso Mailing List: October 99, Message #992

Don't say I didn't tell you! :-)))
the mAd oNe
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Liebenow <steve.liebenow@divatv.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <detomaso@realbig.com>
Date: Thursday, October 28, 1999 2:14 PM
Subject: Reduced Size Stud Kits


>All,
>
>The mAD oNE had asked me about the head stud kit I was doing in the
>Goose....  I thought I was going to have the hot ticket here..... bought
>the whippy dippy ARP "reduced size 12 pt. nut kit"... to avoid having to
>remove the rocker arms (which are now adjusted....) in order to retorque
>head bolts...
>
>Well, tore into the motor last nite with this thought in mind, only to
>discover that there is no way in Cleveland that this is going to happen....
>must be the "other guys" that ARP is referring to.... certainly not on a
>Boss or 351C head.... No matter WHAT you put in there... you WILL have to
>remove rocker arms to retorque head gaskets.....
>
>I checked the 5 accessable ones along the bottom edge and only one budged
>even the slightest amount.... all the rest tripped the torque wrench....
>I'd say that they're torqued just fine.... perhaps on another day.... when
>I have reason to want to readjust all of my valves....
>
>Thought youse would want to know this. There IS enuf room in a Goose to
>install the studs AND the heads, so it should be fine for a Cleveland in a
>Pantera. Studs only install in block hand tight.... so if you do have a
>fitment issue, you can still put the studs in after the head goes on....
>
>So, save thirty bucks or so, and just get the conventional stud kit if you
>are so inclined.... all that's bigger is the physical size of the nuts....
>and they are six points....
>
>Steve
>