[TR] Post motor rebuild re-torque

[glemon at neb.rr.com]

While I agree with your efforts as far as consistency is concerned, I believe I have read that you are generally  supposed to take torque readings with all threads dry.

 

Greg Lemon


---- terryrs at comcast.net wrote: 
> >What is the correct re-torquing method - back off the nut and re-tighten 
> >to spec or just tighten to spec?
> 
> Just to add to what others have said, I've finally found that the Head nuts that are outside the valve cover are dry as a bone, while those inside are nicely oiled.  Backing off the "outside" nuts, then retorquing always finished with a screeching sound (I think Randal had a name for it).  This last time, I oiled the studs outside so that they would be equally oiled as the studs inside and so they would torque evenly.  Probably unnecessary, but I seemed to feel like I got a more accurate torquing of the normally "dry" outside studs.
> 
> Terry Smith, 1959 TR3A
> New Hampshire
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