[nilknarf]

First off, I can't thank you guys enough for sharing your wisdom with everyone over the years- I've posted a bit, but mostly lurked as my experience pales compared to y'all.

After having all the usual mag case stuff done (case savers, etc) I bolted the bottom end of my 7R mag case together yesterday- everything went great until I torqued the small nuts (the 22 or so "perimeter" nuts) to the prescribed 18#... three of them went "pop" and lost their torque, so I know it all has to come back apart... my question is this: do I simply time-cert the studs that popped (two of them were the long studs near the breather and the intermediate shaft bearing, and one near the flywheel) or do I need to re-work all of the perimeter stud threads because they're doomed too? There's another complication... in my infinite wisdom, I used prevailing torque nuts instead of nylock nuts- is it possible these caused the studs to strip?

_curt