Teddy Bear

If i buy a set of studs for my truck could i go ahead and get them installed one at a time without removing the head from the truck? Is there anything wrong with this? Just figured it might help my HG hold on a bit longer when i decide to go to a bigger charger.

PourinDiesel

Yeah you could do that.
But I recommend bottom tapping the block holes if you want to do it right.

Teddy Bear

What exactly does that mean?

PourinDiesel

Most of the head bolt engine block holes are not tapped completely resulting in a stud's threads not fully engaged to the engine block. This also causes the stud to protrude and can cause some clearance issues with other engine parts like valve covers etc.
Another thing that is a potential when the stud is not fully depressed is the pulling of block threads. Although this is rare, your potential for this happening increases if the stud is not threaded in completely into the block.

Dshiftff

if you go with arp's you will now have to get your rocker pedistals machined. they supply a shorter tower bolt so you dont have clearance issues anymore.
Just did mine and came out nice with no valve cover grinding.

one54ton

I kept my head on. It was an S.O.B. but it works great.