[Farmall] Farmall H Head Installation

[szabelsk at gdls.com]

All the studs are the same length, so it's not that. Also the washers 
weren't in any specific pattern, like for the intake/exhaust manifold. 
There were only three and they were two different thicknesses. I agree 
about washers being used for creating a load bearing surface between the 
nut and the head and increasing the overall clamping surface, but I would 
think that would be for all of the studs, not just a couple of them. Maybe 
I'm looking at a case were whoever worked on the block last didn't put all 
the washers back in (???). Haven't cleaned off the nuts or push rods yet 
since I'm still waiting for the head gasket to be delivered and I'm doing 
it a little at a time until then, so I can't tell if the nuts have a flat 
side or not. From what I remember of the disassembly, I do believe that 
they don't look the same on both sides like a normal nut, sort of remember 
them looking like a self locking nut, so maybe they have a flatter surface 
on one side. I'll have to take a better look at them.

Carl Szabelski


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