Head Bolts!!!??? Issue...

When we took my heads off my truck, there were shorter bolts on the ends of the heads, its a bolt whatever. Ordered ARP head bolts for replacement and went under summit and plugged in my vehicle, came up xxxx, and i checked other places for validity. Everything was fine. Bolts are here and they are all long, no short ones for the end. Kyle did some research and my head bolts are supposed to be all long on an 04. Ideas? Any info soon would be great, want it going back together this weekend, thanks guys

You got the wrong head bolts....send them back

so to finish the story every place we looked said 04 + uses all the same head bolts and i know i had read the same thing on here as well. so the kit was ordered by the year which his truck is an 04. well come to find out he called a dealership and 04 was a split year where there were some motors with all the same lenght head bolts others with shorter end bolts. what a joke lol... live an learn i guess i bet this isnt the first time its happened. so i believe a new set should be here by the weekend and we will hopefully have the 4.8 back together and running. time shall tell.

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Originally Posted by Wtfan18

so to finish the story every place we looked said 04 + uses all the same head bolts and i know i had read the same thing on here as well. so the kit was ordered by the year which his truck is an 04. well come to find out he called a dealership and 04 was a split year where there were some motors with all the same lenght head bolts others with shorter end bolts. what a joke lol... live an learn i guess i bet this isnt the first time its happened. so i believe a new set should be here by the weekend and we will hopefully have the 4.8 back together and running. time shall tell.

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yep they did that with the diesels also...mid 04 switched

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Originally Posted by mean05

yep they did that with the diesels also...mid 04 switched

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craziness... we had no idea, every source said all same lenght, i guess i shoulda known better as my 02 was the same as his. oh well...

Live and learn huh...too bad i got some nice ARP 2000's that are the right ones for him :D

BTW, its not the head, its the block that makes it that way.

called summit racing and asked what i should do and how i should go about excahnging and getting them here for this weekend so i can keep the progress going, summit tech, ordered me the right ones and paid shipping and handling to have them here tomorrow!! and just send mine back.

is it possible to drill out a block for the longer same length bolts?

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Originally Posted by RedHeartbeat

BTW, its not the head, its the block that makes it that way.

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yeah i know, i just thought it was wierd they have an 03 and older style block in an 04 truck.