Flank
American by Birth, Texan by the grace of God.
My 95 has a blown head gasket after flogging it to death pulling a box trailer for a month for work while searching for a new V8 Sequoia to replace the one my daughter totaled. I'm getting ready to replace the HG in the truck, and have a good spare engine (also with a minor HG leak) to mix/ match any components I'll need. The engine in the truck was a Robbie top-end rebuilt engine previously acquired as a drop-in replacement. I kept my original engine that had a mere 192K miles on it. My dilemma was whether or not to do the top end of the 192K engine out of the truck and do the swap, or to take the easier route of the HG in the truck on the ~150K engine. In-the-truck won out.
I know that there is a lot of back and forth on the check / reuse old head bolts... I've not looked too much into what the re-use spec is, but my plan is to replace them with ARP studs, kit 209-4702 . Hence my questions:
1) The OEM head bolts are bolts (containing the head of the bolt) Correct? The ARP studs require a top nut to use, and they come with the kit, correct?
2) The ARP kit appears to come wiht 16 studs, and if I looked correctly, the head takes 14, correct?
3) Has anyone run into any issues using the ARP kit? Any advantage to using OEM over ARP or otherwise?
Thanks. I've never broken into the engine, past the intake before and EGR systems, before. I'm nervous, but looking forward to it.
I know that there is a lot of back and forth on the check / reuse old head bolts... I've not looked too much into what the re-use spec is, but my plan is to replace them with ARP studs, kit 209-4702 . Hence my questions:
1) The OEM head bolts are bolts (containing the head of the bolt) Correct? The ARP studs require a top nut to use, and they come with the kit, correct?
2) The ARP kit appears to come wiht 16 studs, and if I looked correctly, the head takes 14, correct?
3) Has anyone run into any issues using the ARP kit? Any advantage to using OEM over ARP or otherwise?
Thanks. I've never broken into the engine, past the intake before and EGR systems, before. I'm nervous, but looking forward to it.