Good news that the studs or nuts came out without a problem I personally have snapped a valve cove bolt and was forced to drill it out and tap the hole, glad it worked out for you. Alloro gave you the correct torque #s I
had a habit of over torqueing the bolts and splitting cork gaskets or just damaging rubber covered metal ones so be careful and use those ft/lb #s.


Last please allow me to share information you may already know regarding proper routing of spark plug wires. Should you not be aware of the bulletin, please open the link and read the bulletin from Dodge to the Dodge Dealers to avoid the engine miss problem.


The link follows; http://dodgeram.info/tsb/1998/18-48-98/18-48-98-v8.htm