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Old 11-11-10, 02:40 PM
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No reason to use loctite. The nuts wont actually back off or anything. What may happen is that the head gasket compresses to a point, loosening the clamping effect of the studs Or, the studs stretch, which would also serve to lessen the clamping effect, of course.
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