^^^ are you sayin just to check thread engagement/shank protrusion so the bolt does not go all the way to the bottom (which I certainly see how that would appear to be torqued/tight but not near enough clamping load in a borderline deal. this block was baked clean & looks pristine & what is behind this is in some prior SB builds the head gaskets were not compressed to what felpro says they should compress to (& that is with the std torque amt on the OE head bolts, I forget the #) & that got me thinking that I want to avoid that in this 408 build with .040 cometics that I want to get .040 quench.