any one ever do 1 head stud at a time ??if so any info on it would be great

 

I would strongly recommend you don't do that. Ive never seen it last and that's a lot of work just to have to tear it down for head gaskets very soon after.

 

Who have you seen where it hasn't worked

 

right here!! I thought I would the same thing, you know trying to be proactive, it is very crucial that on a diesel head ALL bolts maintain their tork, by loosening one bolt at a time you will lose the seal between the block and head, it might last for a period but believe me it will fail. I ended up doing my head bolts any ways after I tried this. Besides with the cab on the truck you can't reach all of the bolts any ways so only some would be changed, but not the ones that seem to fail, it seems to me that #7 cylinder head gasket seal is prone to failure the most why ???
save the heart ache and do them all at once the right way.

 

Well I'm doing a head job on a 06 right now and it's a pain in the *** trying to shorte it ip

 

It is VERY possible to do all of the studs with the cab on, I've been a part of 3 cab-on stud jobs (including my own). Just takes a little bit of slight "massaging" of the firewall and a couple rubber bands.

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What's the hold up? The actual labor usually only takes a backyard mechanic a weekend, waiting on parts is the long part.

 

[QUOTE=Diesel_Daddy6.0;1008222]It is VERY possible to do all of the studs with the cab on, I've been a part of 3 cab-on stud jobs (including my own). Just takes a little bit of slight "massaging" of the firewall and a couple rubber bands.
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when you did these did you completely take the heads off or did you do it one at a time I was going to do studs one at a time but after reading this I guess I better just pull the heads and have them o-ringed while im at it

 

All 3 had the heads pulled and taken to the machine shop. Only 1 truck had a known gasket failure but mine was VERY close, needed .004" shaved (any more than .006" and the head can't be used) and the 3rd was perfectly fine. Truth is, you have no idea how close that gasket is to blowing until you have the head off.

 

Ive witnessed a few at previous shop I was at with young kids trying to save some money. The owner also had a buddy who owned a shop in Wisconsin that attempted to one at a time a few trucks that came back very shortly.

 

It's funny how some people never have the time/money to do the job right, but they always find enough to do it twice