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It would also be worth getting a set of solid copper headgaskets made. Welldigger and I talked about it a while back. They would be expensive, but reusable and very hard to blow. Of course either shellac compound or copper spray gasket would have to be used to ensure a proper lasting seal. There...

Rusty, if you could get the part numbers for the studs from your buddy and post them here it would be great. Then we just need to get them posted in the deuce parts quick reference guide. Same with the 12 point rod bolts. Nobody wants to search through three dozen threads that are 30 pages long...

Better head studs and good gaskets with coppercote would just about eliminate all of our headgasket failures.

I agree 100%. I use the copper spray gasket adhesive on all headgaskets and some other flat gaskets as well. Never had a problem after using the copper "spray a gasket". I believe that is what they call it. I don't have a can handy.

One has a flat tab that sticks straight out, one has a tab that sticks down and hugs the block. The block hugger is an earlier version.