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1. Head Studs (score: 1): Author: DMatt21502@aol.com; Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:45:23 EST; I am finally finished with the lower end on my 1977 MGB and am getting ready to install the head. On an old Jag XKE that I had, there was much concern about reusing the studs because they went into t; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00752.html (6,974 bytes)
2. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:22:55 -0800; Since the threads stretch when being torqued, they do have limited capacity for reuse. But being a low-budget operator myself, I would hesitate to say you MUST replace them. I suspect others may have; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00754.html (7,623 bytes)
3. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>; Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:35:06 -0800; Unless you know they were replaced in the last year or so, replace them now! There are lots of "cures" touted for the "traditional" (some say inevitable) coolant leak between the cylinder head and bl; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00755.html (8,019 bytes)
4. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay@stoolhead.com>; Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:10:18 -0500; A rule of thumb: If they show rust or if you know the head has been off a time or two before, consider replacing them. I don't push engines too hard and I have never elevated the compression ratio ot; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00757.html (7,482 bytes)
5. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:36:24 EST; In my 28 years of professional experience, I've never had a leak in that location on an engine I've rebuilt. Could that be because I replace the head studs as a matter of course during an engine rebu; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00772.html (7,407 bytes)
6. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: MGBnutt@aol.com; Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:59:39 EST; I would think replacing those studs while you had it all apart would be prudent. Cheap insurance too. Only about $37 from Moss for the stock studs (unless my math is way off...). $164 for the fancy; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00773.html (7,046 bytes)
7. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: "Chuck Renner" <crenner@dynalivery.com>; Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:14:05 -0600; would I went ahead and got new studs for my '79 while I had the head off. In the grand scheme of things, studs are pretty cheap. The short ones I got from Moss were even packaged individually with R; /html/mgs/2004-03/msg00777.html (7,112 bytes)
8. Head Studs (score: 1): Author: gbaker@customcpu.com (Baker, G.); Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:30:35 -0900; I believe each time a stud is torqued it is stretched to a certain spec and that if one is over torqued it doesn't return to its original length and becomes much weaker. I've always heard and read th; /html/mgs/2001-01/msg00465.html (7,046 bytes)
9. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: "James H. Nazarian, Ph.D." <microdoc@apk.net>; Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:33:31 -0500; This is true with certain cars, particularly newer American makes, but it is not true of pre-1980 MGs, or Healeys. We definitely can re-use studs. Jim; /html/mgs/2001-01/msg00477.html (7,406 bytes)
10. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>; Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:44:30 -0800; May I ask on what experience you base that statement, Jim? And the following two questions would also seem important - How many times can used head studs be re-used safely, and how, by looking at an; /html/mgs/2001-01/msg00483.html (7,397 bytes)
11. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:08:07 EST; I agree with Lawrie. There was one type of stud that usually had a little '22' on the top that was absolute crap - it wouldn't take regular torque half the time, and would break if you went one pound; /html/mgs/2001-01/msg00497.html (7,725 bytes)
12. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: "Ptegler" <ptegler@gouldfo.com>; Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:15:10 -0500; Like everything else in this 'aftermarket' supply chain for our LBC's I can only believe $$ price is why these 'studs' stretch so much. Plain and simple, they're crappy far east recycled US car metal; /html/mgs/2001-01/msg00531.html (8,924 bytes)
13. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: Gonaj@aol.com; Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:07:53 EST; Sorry I haven't followed this string more closely but I do wonder if you are all purchasing OE equivalent head bolts or are some just going to an auto store and matching sizes. The potential problem; /html/mgs/2001-01/msg00673.html (7,009 bytes)
14. Head Studs (score: 1): Author: ahhclem@kcnet.com; Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:09:14 -0600; Does anyone know if there is a torque value for the cylinder head studs? I've looked thru the Haynes book and don't see a reference.; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01002.html (6,803 bytes)
15. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>; Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:18:15 -0800; I don't recall ever seeing a torque setting for studs, but I have always cleaned the threads and put them in tight. If you use a double nut to put them in you can tighten to approximately the same as; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01005.html (8,423 bytes)
16. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: "Ian & Liz" <liz.ian@ihug.co.nz>; Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:44:07 +1200; No need to torque head (or any other stud). Just make sure that everything is clean, and run down finger tight, perhaps with a small 'nip' on them to help keep them in place when the head is removed; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01009.html (10,597 bytes)
17. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: Gonaj@aol.com; Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 06:38:43 EST; Is it possible that these are "torque to yield " studs. I know that most modern engines use that type. I have a large gap in such experience with head bolts, I know that in the 60s and before they al; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01010.html (7,414 bytes)
18. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: "James H. Nazarian, Ph.D." <microdoc@apk.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:12:50 -0500; "Torque to yield studs" were employed in the '80's by Ford as one of their terrible "better ideas". The intention was the stud would stretch as it was tightened, but would only retract back very sli; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01025.html (8,326 bytes)
19. Re: Head Studs (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:58:59 -0000; As far as I am aware no appreciable torque should be put on the studs, I have heard of people cracking the block by mistakenly torqueing them up. PaulH.; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01026.html (7,310 bytes)
20. Head Studs (score: 1): Author: ahhclem@kcnet.com; Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:14:04 -0600; Thanks to all who responded. Advice is always needed & appreciated. The studs were pretty loose when first removed. This supports the majority of the advice received here, that not tightening would b; /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01043.html (7,013 bytes)

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