Posted by David Sherman on Monday, December 01, 2003 at 11:12PM :
In Reply to: Re: engine studs vs. stud removal posted by Tim Holloway on Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 10:19PM :
It's a bolt until you try to unscrew it. Then it's a stud again (but a shorter one) when the stud/bolt twists off at the point where the welding heat turned the grade-8 hardened stud into the metalurgical equivalent of re-bar.