Tightening head bolts on engine stand?

[treed2 at wsu.edu (T. Reed)]

Just use your old head bolts to lower the engine in the car, then swap
them out for the new ones before torquing.

The block is only ~160 lbs, ten ~3/8" bolts can more than handle that load
in any direction. And the head can too (you're lifting it by the ears,
I assume). Put your old gasket between the head and block, tho.. to keep
things from getting scratched.

-Toby

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Jeff Toomasson wrote:

> 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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