You stripped exhaust studs using brass nuts?!
On Apr 18, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> I think I've finally isolated the original cause of a series of
> blown exhaust flange gaskets: two of the three studs on one manifold
> were weak and would not hold tension. I finally ended up stripping
> them while trying to apply a reasonable torqe (20 ft-lbs). Anyway,
> I managed to extract the studs and tried installing 3 new ones I
> happened to have and all of them stripped!
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