tbrumm
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Brian, I ran into this issue with the sheet steel stampings under the rockers touching the tops of the studs when I was reinstalling the heads on my truck last year.
Here is the comment I posted in by build thread about this:
And here is another question! I have installed the ARP studs, and the bottom of the lip on sheet metal stamping under the rocker assembly is sitting directly on top of most of the studs! Is this okay, or is there something wrong here? On a few of the studs there is just a little space between the top of the stud and the stamping, but most are right on top of the stud. Now I cleaned the head bolt hole threads and then chased them with the ARP thread chaser (not a tap) and then installed the studs "hand-tight" per ARP's instructions. Those studs are not going to go any deeper into the block. Has anybody run into this, or am I concerned over nothing? Thanks.
When I posed the above question to the Oilburners collective, no one replied to it, so assumed that no one had ever run into this before. In my case, the rockers were all torqued down to spec. and the stampings were then just barely touching the studs (and there were some that actually had very small space between) so I went ahead and buttoned everything up and it has been fine for almost a year now. I probably should have called Justin at R & D as that is where I got the studs from. So you are now the second person I know of who has had this experience, although yours seem to have much more interference. The studs Justin sells are not the "7.3 IDI Kit" that ARP sells. Justin sends you 34 studs, nuts and washers in a ziplock bag and you don't get any ARP lube with them. I assume he buys the studs in bulk form ARP and that is how he can sell them cheaper than anyone else.
Here is the comment I posted in by build thread about this:
And here is another question! I have installed the ARP studs, and the bottom of the lip on sheet metal stamping under the rocker assembly is sitting directly on top of most of the studs! Is this okay, or is there something wrong here? On a few of the studs there is just a little space between the top of the stud and the stamping, but most are right on top of the stud. Now I cleaned the head bolt hole threads and then chased them with the ARP thread chaser (not a tap) and then installed the studs "hand-tight" per ARP's instructions. Those studs are not going to go any deeper into the block. Has anybody run into this, or am I concerned over nothing? Thanks.
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When I posed the above question to the Oilburners collective, no one replied to it, so assumed that no one had ever run into this before. In my case, the rockers were all torqued down to spec. and the stampings were then just barely touching the studs (and there were some that actually had very small space between) so I went ahead and buttoned everything up and it has been fine for almost a year now. I probably should have called Justin at R & D as that is where I got the studs from. So you are now the second person I know of who has had this experience, although yours seem to have much more interference. The studs Justin sells are not the "7.3 IDI Kit" that ARP sells. Justin sends you 34 studs, nuts and washers in a ziplock bag and you don't get any ARP lube with them. I assume he buys the studs in bulk form ARP and that is how he can sell them cheaper than anyone else.
