I have a bad habit of blowing off the handle when it comes to things that don't make sense about MY truck. If I was in your position,,, I would tell the ins company that the only repair I'm happy with is a Ford dealer,,,, I mean, a dodge dealer???? Um,,,, NO!!!! I would say to pay nothing now,,, get it done,,, then drive the crap outta it (while looking for a dealer to do it how Iwant), and blow the hg's. most dealers will put the arp's in and tell no one. Basically the ins company has no need to know the difference.

Or, pay for the studs now. I would only do that after questioning the techs doing the work at the dodge dealer. Make sure they are 6.0 competent. Did they check the deltas?? I just say screw any tech or shop that wants to default to tty's, the arp's are just as proven as their precious cummins. Having studs done on a 6l in a dodge dealer???? Bad decisions seem to compound themselves if the trend isn't squashed. Stop using " on paper" logic,,, n use your common sense. The ins company isn't gonna have someone standing over the tech's shoulder,,, so screw the tech, for screwing you.

If the dodge dealer was confident about the repair they are about to do,,, they wouldn't even doubt studs. Maybe they will only put tty's in because they aren't confident in the techs ability n know it will be back for a redo. I just say **** on the place your truck is in. I'd be having a rollback take it outta there if they aren't gonna do all they can to allow me a properly running truck. Screw them!!!

 

Agreed ^^^

 

What they said ^^^^^^^^^

 

Another what they said

 

Well, what did you decide to do?

 

Bump. Did you go with studs or bolts?

 

I feel kinda ****ty that he might not have done it simply because I started a tangent based on the heads actually being checked. I stand by the claim that trashed heads are just begging a repeat job and are just as likely to **** money down the drain as TTY bolts, but the real **** of this is the dealer tech might not correctly perform the repair with or without the studs.

 

Have mine in the shop now with blown head gaskets. ARP studs being installed, because I plan on running a tuner and I do a lot of towing. I read a quote which made me choose the updated studs "the Ford head bolts are going to fail sooner or later no matter what, a tuner will make it sooner". Even on the stock tune if you tow your going to up the boost. For me I don't want the aggravation of dealing with it again.

 

The Ford dealer here in Norco told my son to use ARP head studs when he had his done. He bought the whole kit bullet prove diesel sells and they said they would warrinty it. So its just a Dodge dealer thing I guess. Anyway his runs great and they checked everything, turbo etc.. Should of studed it and got back your money if its not covered any more. After they repaired it you could of asked for the remaining period be returned. There's the money if it ever happen again.

 

Well luckily some dealers and people are listening then

 

The dealership that studded mine asked if I wanted to stud it. They also recommended doing an EGR delete.