Damn! Forgot to put washers on head bolts! Need some advice.

[Huw Powell]

The head bolts I have seen, I thought had captive washers?  So you can't
forget them... but of course you are looking at your engine, you can see
that they aren't there, I suppose.

> I was looking today at the head illustration in ETKA (installed on my PC
> at work) when it srtuck me that I forgot to put damn washers on head
> bolt when replaced a head couple weeks ago.  I was installing the head
> with EM,IM and turbo by myself only, no assistant. You can imagine how I
> was preoccupied!  I was so happy that I alligned the head that I just
> dropped bolts from the box ritght into the holes.... forgot washers in
> other words. Car was not driven yet.  Here are question arisen:
>
> - can I remove and put back head bolts one by one? Or I need to slacken
> them all according to the procedure, place washers and torque back
> according to the same procedure?
>
> - can I reuse bolts if the engine never got warm yet and they are
> torqued 2 weeks ago?  I know that they stretch but I am not sure that it
> happen at the moment they are torqued.
>
> Thanks you.
>
> Konstantin Bogach.

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