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

[Konstantin Bogach]

I just don't remember seeing them.  It was FIBI bolts.

Mike, I am calling you right now with the question (it is for Mike Murphy).

Thank you for giving me a hope.

Konstantin Bogach.


Huw Powell wrote:

> 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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> Huw Powell
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