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fmartenies fmartenies is offline
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If you replace the studs with bolts, the wear and tear you had on your studs will now be on......the engine block.

I'm not a mechanical engineer so I can't give you a precise figure, but the torque is spread between the nut/stud surface and the stud/block surface. Replacing with a bolt would transfer all the torque to the threads in the block. So it would fare even worse than the stud has.
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