I have a leak at the manifold gasket, and was wondering if the studs were as prone to siezing and breaking off as on the 602/603 aluminum block engines. I was planning on using a fair amount of PB and heat as a precaution. Any advice on proceeding with this would be greatly appreciated as I'm pretty nervous about it.

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