Water pump stud torque, other studs torque?

[Jon Pike <jhpike@xxxxxxx>]

Hello all..

I have my front cover's waterpump studs all out in a bag..  (came that 
way from PO)

Got them all chased thru a die,  and soaking in solvent now..

There is a torque spec in the documentation I have, 6-8 ft lbs,  for the 
nuts that go on the studs..  but I haven't found anything for the studs 
themselves going in the block.   What might be a safe "margin of 
difference",  in that the studs should be somewhat tighter in the block 
than the torque of the nuts that they will carry?  I haven't been 
finding any..

And for other studs..  is there some kind of general formula for this?  
For stud size X in aluminum,  with nuts torqed to Y...   torque stud to 
Y * 1.25 or something? 
Or is it too hard to lay down in rules,  and you just torque them rather 
tight,  and the nuts sorta less than that tight?   Would really 
appriciate being pointed to a good source of info on such matters.

Thanks!

Jon
77 Spider
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