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Old 09-15-2025, 04:59 PM
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My Crower billets I bought used had the 12 point nuts tweaked a little when previous owner removed them. Buying new correct nuts would have been ideal as the shoulder on the ARP 7/16 nuts was 0.040 to big to fit in the rod recess. Had to have some turned down to still use decent rods.

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