Main Stud Kit for Chevrolet Dart Little M with splayed cap bolts

Main Stud Kit for Chevrolet Dart Little M with splayed cap boltsThere are many important reasons to use ARP main stud kits, including the elimination of main cap walk and fretting, as well as protecting the threads in your engine block. All kits come complete with hardened parallel ground washers and high quality nuts. Some applications have provisions for mounting windage trays and have specially designed standoff studs with serrated lock nuts to position the windage tray and lock it securely in place. The studs

The threads are rolled after heat-treating which gives them about 2000% better fatigue strength than most main bolts that are threaded prior to heat-treating

Studs are manufactured with a unique nut-starter nose that helps prevent cross-threading

choice of hex or 12-bolt head

Many professional engine builders prefer to use studs because of their ability to properly position the gasket and guide the cover into position

This procedureinvolves about ten very slight cuts and results in an exceptionallystraight part

and precision J-form threads rolled after heat-treat to create a fastener that has threads 2000% stronger than others

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they’ve been known to break at the most inopportune time

000 psi range

Not to be usedwith OEM-style

You will note that ARP studs feature a special “bullet nose” to guide the nut accurately into place

each stud is placed verticallyinto special racks and precisely heat-treated to 190