Hey, I was looking at my headstuds today *golden eagle and was reading the little peiced of folded paper they give you. It says to have the studs put in by a shop and to not try this unless your are very experienced.

How experienced are they talking? This is my first swap/build and would like to do it right, so when I decide to mount my b16 head to my b18 block...should I take it to a shop? Did you find it hard to do? I will have someone helping me w/ the build.

 

You tried calling them and ask?

BTW as far as I know from rebuilding Chevy's and one ford engine I know that you hand tighten the head studs themselves before you add the nuts to the head-studs to be torqued to factory specs. I guess they are worried people might apply unnecessary torque load to the head-studs.

 

That is what was one of my concerns, how tight to tighten them into the block before you add the hardware and torque them?

 

I know on my last rebuild of a B18 engine I hand tighten the head-studs prior to tighten them again with the nuts to factory specs.

 

I am just afraid to tighten them too much or not tighten them enough.

 

something like this is where experience comes into play, it is very easy to pull threads out of blocks

 

found the answer http://www.arp-bolts.com/pages....html


Modified by 2k.civic.si at 11:07 AM 3/9/2005

 

its alot easier than you think. just take your time and follow your manuals .
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1062140 -good how to.
"experience is the greatest teacher"