<VV> Cylinder stud question

Frank DuVal corvairduval at cox.net
Wed Feb 20 07:27:03 EST 2008


When doing O-Ring jobs this would happen once in a while. I would just 
leave the rocker stud/head stud assembly assembled and reinstall it with 
the new small o-ring, torque to specs. Never a problem.

Frank DuVal

Rex Chivers wrote:

>Dropped a valve seat in my 95hp pg last week (#5 exhaust).  Pulled the head 
>on the passengers side.  In removing the head one of the cylinder studs 
>backed out of the case. It was one of the rocker arm studs on #3 cylinder. 
>Would it be ok when reassembling to put a little locktite red on the stud, 
>thread it in an torque it to factory specs for the nut, or should I 
>disassemble the stud and rocker stud and install individually?
>
>Thanks for you help !
>  -Rex-
>65 Vert
>61 Rampie
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