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Mine fit w/o an grinding. I did seat the studs down very far, double-nutting them and tightening them down into the block pretty snug.


What Roger said, although my understanding is that the studs should be only finger tight when you actually begin assembly. Did you make sure you didn't trap any liquid/crud in the bottom of the head bolt holes? I've found it's good to chase these holes with a liberal amount of brake cleaner -- the potent, fast evaporating type. Having liquid trapped at the bottom of these would truly suck. Once you believe you have all studs bottomed out, use a straight edge across all five studs and make sure there aren't any that are obviously higher/lower.

-Jeff

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