Nope; I went to steel nuts trying to solve the blown gasket problem.
They worked fine on 4 of the 6 studs (and worked fine on all 6 prior to
this round of gasket replacement).
bs
Eric (Rick) Wilkins wrote:
> 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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