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Re torquing heads
DubbyDo - May 14th, 2015 at 06:30 PM

Having begun my apprenticeship with mono torque head gaskets and such I haven't had the need to retorque any heads... ever! until now. do I just run the torque wrench around all the head nuts or do I back them off and retorque them one at a time??

vw54 - May 14th, 2015 at 06:59 PM

Are you talking about an Air cooled VW engine or Water cooled

Air cooled does not require Re torqueing as the barrels should be lapped into the heads b4 assembly

not sure about water cooled engine I would suspect if they had copper gasket yes but with the new type paper n alloy ring gaskets NO

modnrod - May 14th, 2015 at 07:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DubbyDodo I just run the torque wrench around all the head nuts


This.

If you back them off first then there's the chance of starting to delaminate the gasket.

Especially if it's Chevy Shit, not that good pure Cleveland iron.
:smilegrin:

DubbyDo - May 14th, 2015 at 07:45 PM

Cool bananas, thanks for the replies guys