I am helping a friend reassemble his motor this week and he is using ARP head studs and rod bolts in his B20/VTEC. These bolts were in the motor when he spun a rod bearing and now he is reusing them. I am just curious if we need to re-stretch the rod and head studs or if the stretching process in done due to prior installation.

Any information is great! Thanks.

 

best to triple check everthing now rather than later. i would suspect the rod bolts more since a bearing was spun. were the rod bolts resized to begin with? could be the cause of the spun bearing?