2005 main stud help!
12-03-2010, 10:54 PM
#13
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Do this. pull the plug on your # 6 cylinder, see if you have coolant in there. If not #6, check your other cylinders until you find a wet plug.
You likely have a blown head gasket; main bolts are not going to do you any good.
Putting it back together, once the blown head gasket it replaced, using ARP head studs will help.
"Bolt stretching causing you to loose coolant", bullcrap. Gaskets make the seal. Bolts hold the parts in place. If a seal breaks, a bolt is not going to flex back and seal it. A bolt make have stretched, and is no good, and the gasket is toast.
Find yourself someone who really knows engines; the person who told you that doesn't know.
You likely have a blown head gasket; main bolts are not going to do you any good.
Putting it back together, once the blown head gasket it replaced, using ARP head studs will help.
"Bolt stretching causing you to loose coolant", bullcrap. Gaskets make the seal. Bolts hold the parts in place. If a seal breaks, a bolt is not going to flex back and seal it. A bolt make have stretched, and is no good, and the gasket is toast.
Find yourself someone who really knows engines; the person who told you that doesn't know.
12-04-2010, 08:54 AM
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Do this. pull the plug on your # 6 cylinder, see if you have coolant in there. If not #6, check your other cylinders until you find a wet plug.
You likely have a blown head gasket; main bolts are not going to do you any good.
Putting it back together, once the blown head gasket it replaced, using ARP head studs will help.
"Bolt stretching causing you to loose coolant", bullcrap. Gaskets make the seal. Bolts hold the parts in place. If a seal breaks, a bolt is not going to flex back and seal it. A bolt make have stretched, and is no good, and the gasket is toast.
Find yourself someone who really knows engines; the person who told you that doesn't know.
You likely have a blown head gasket; main bolts are not going to do you any good.
Putting it back together, once the blown head gasket it replaced, using ARP head studs will help.
"Bolt stretching causing you to loose coolant", bullcrap. Gaskets make the seal. Bolts hold the parts in place. If a seal breaks, a bolt is not going to flex back and seal it. A bolt make have stretched, and is no good, and the gasket is toast.
Find yourself someone who really knows engines; the person who told you that doesn't know.
Thanks
Daniel
12-04-2010, 10:36 AM
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Your not getting what I'm asking I already know that... I'm having trouble finding the arp bolts and windage tray! I am going to replace the head gasket but why do it till I can get the bolts? And if I'm going to replace the bolts I'd like to go ahead and put the windage tray on too! I know y'all are trying to help but none of this has told where I can find a windage tray...
Thanks
Daniel
Thanks
Daniel
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12-04-2010, 01:38 PM
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my guess after rereading this thing, is the motor is out and while he's repairing
one issue (the head gasket) he's wanting to shore up as much of the motor
as possible. i could be wrong, because details are missing here and there and this
is the best i can come up with. he's probably just like us and never wants to see the
engine on a stand again.
one issue (the head gasket) he's wanting to shore up as much of the motor
as possible. i could be wrong, because details are missing here and there and this
is the best i can come up with. he's probably just like us and never wants to see the
engine on a stand again.
12-04-2010, 11:14 PM
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my guess after rereading this thing, is the motor is out and while he's repairing
one issue (the head gasket) he's wanting to shore up as much of the motor
as possible. i could be wrong, because details are missing here and there and this
is the best i can come up with. he's probably just like us and never wants to see the
engine on a stand again.
one issue (the head gasket) he's wanting to shore up as much of the motor
as possible. i could be wrong, because details are missing here and there and this
is the best i can come up with. he's probably just like us and never wants to see the
engine on a stand again.
There are also a few shops such as Brenspeed that don't recommend anything other than TTY bolts for the heads, so the OP should be aware of that if he decides to use something else.
12-05-2010, 01:35 AM
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Yeah, I was just assuming also that you wanted to just replace the main studs.
I looked at getting a canton windage tray, but kept the stock one. Not sure which ARP main bolts/studs were used in my build. I think we used 4 studs that the tray was then mounted to, and the others were bolts and not studs.
I looked at getting a canton windage tray, but kept the stock one. Not sure which ARP main bolts/studs were used in my build. I think we used 4 studs that the tray was then mounted to, and the others were bolts and not studs.