When we did mine we interpreted hand-tight as just that, no socket or wrench. The ARP instructions specify not applying torque. It felt sketchy, but the disco has been chugging away happily since the HG job so it works.

I used threadlocker on the bottom set of threads on each stud. The ARP instructions don't mention it, but if I recall correctly I was following someone's advice from this forum (or another LR forum).

The instruction set is here if you want to take a gander at it.

 

I have to do the job outside, and using the threadlocker means you need to install the head immediately. Being alone, outside, if something goes wrong, rain, forgot something, I don't want that pressure or to reclean the holes.

What is the logic behind the bottom, not the rest?

 

Sounds really complicated

 

To be honest, I wrote it down to use threadlocker on my cheatsheet for when I went to put them in, but for the life of me I can't find w/e forum thread I saw it in. I'd imagine you could use the ARP stuff on both sides and the nut and call it a day.

Saturnine with what I've followed you doing in your apartment's parking lot I figure this would sort of thing would be a breeze for you!

 

I have to start doing a better job of bookmarking, too. There was an oil study I now cannot find! T4 it is.

 

I appreciate that but really I'm an idiot.