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RE: re-torque cyl heads

To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: re-torque cyl heads
From: "Randall" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:28:52 -0700
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Reply-to: "Randall" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
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> but if you work on German cars (my experience is limited to building engines
> for rabbits for racing) you find yourself not only blowing head gaskets if
> you relax a bolt to retorque it, but throwing away head bolts every time you
> use them--they are necked to stretch and don't work a second time.

Interesting ... I guess I'm glad nobody told me that before.  Only Rabbit I ever
wrenched on was given to me with what turned out to be a blown head gasket.  Had
nothing to lose so I pulled the head, dressed it with a big flat file and put it
back together with a new gasket.  It was still running fine probably 5 years
later, when my step-son sold it.  But it was a long way from a racing engine ...
basically bone stock right down to the mechanical, continuous flow fuel
injection.

Randall

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