Tightening head bolts on engine stand?

[jtoomasson at yahoo.com (Jeff Toomasson)]

My worry was whether lifting with the stretch bolts partially torqued would
damage them any...

The 180' turn comes directly from the Bentley and only applies to stretch
bolts (which BTW should be done with the breaker bar and NOT the torque
wrench!  :)   IIRC, Diesels use head studs because of the ultra high
compression. Gas engines using studs like ARP or Raceware need to be
retorqued too...

JT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chris gonzalez" <chris24g@yahoo.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: Tightening head bolts on engine stand?


> just snug them to 20lbs and torque it in the car.but 180? where did the
extra half turn come from? I just did the head gasket on my diesel and the
process was 20lbs, 40lbs, 50lbs, warm up the car then retorque to 50lbs. 180
degrees more would have been more like 80lbs of torque.
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