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 DubbyDo
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| posted on May 14th, 2015 at 06:30 PM |
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Re torquing heads
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??
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| posted on May 14th, 2015 at 06:59 PM |
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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
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| posted on May 14th, 2015 at 07:34 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by DubbyDodo I just run the torque wrench around all the head nuts
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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.
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DubbyDo
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| posted on May 14th, 2015 at 07:45 PM |
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Cool bananas, thanks for the replies guys
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