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["Bradley Peet" <btpeet@effervescent.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>Like Shawn Meze and others have said, I would follow the book and get new
bolts.  16V engines commonly weep oil from the headgasket, so I wouldn't
take chances with your motor and increase the chance of having to do the job
over again.

Better yet, get the ARP head studs from Techtonics.  You get higher clamping
power (due to finer threads at the top where the nut goes on) and you can
reuse them indefinitely.  The only thing I don't like about the ARP head
studs is that the nuts are 1/2" 12 points.  HALF INCH!  Maybe I'm anal, but
I really hate having non-metric parts on my car in part because all my tools
are metric and I have no desire to go out and buy SAE.

Good luck,
Bradley
'86 Scirocco 16V 2.0 "T"
Misc Used Parts: http://dns.effervescent.com/vw/forsale.html

>Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:36:35 -0800
>From: "Dave and Carol Ewing" <dcewing@prodigy.net>
>Subject: Head Bolts
>
>OK, OK, so what is it?  Don't replace them or replace them.  I figured that
>if they reccomend it and I can get them for $20 (hard to believe) then I'd
>go for it.  I have done an 8v head before and reused the head bolts and it
>was fine.  The head was pulled off for preventative maitenance, not because
>the motor had overheated or had other major problems.  So, I am also
>assuming that the headbolts I have are in good enough shape to use again if
>the new ones are outrageously priced.  LMK what you all think!


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