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Bolt Spacers

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Keith Browning

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Adding a spacer gives more physical length to the stud/bolt which translates to more clamping stretch. This allows more "give" or tolerance of the expansion and contraction present during heat cycles thus preventing the bolt from coming loose, allowing the gasket to leak, or snapping off from overstretch.

 

Maybe the 4.6/5.4 need bigger spacers?

 

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do you guys see a lot on the 6.0s? I've only ever run across one.

Actually not many. If I see a broken manifold bolt on one it more than likely has rusted to the point of breaking or snapped trying to remove it.

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