NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO! Please don't try to pull the bolts into the rod with the nut- - - - - -you'll overstress the thread, or strip it, or both. ARP bolts need to be PRESSED into the rod with an arbor press or a hydraulic press, using a support fixture to prevent any distortion of the rod. That's why the machine shop where I managed the rod room always insisted on reconditioning the rods when we sold a set of ARP bolts. It's cheap insurence to do that, as the big end of the rod must be perfectly round, and the right size within 1/2 thousandth or so to establish the right rod bearing clearance. Pressing a new set of bolts in can upset both the roundness, and the bearing bore size to some extent.
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
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