Cylinder head bolts: to replace or not to replace?

[Jim Green]

--- radek at istar.ca wrote:
> Hello listers.
> 
> I'm doing my first cylinder head rebuild (on a
> 5-cyl) and would like to know what to do
> about these 
> bolts.  I'v always thought they should be replaced
> because of stretch but Bentley does not
> mention a 
> thing about it.  Can I reuse them?  Should I reuse
> them?

They are stretch bolts, so they should be replaced. 
Some have re-used them once and been OK, but if it
were me I'd get new ones.



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Jim Green
'89 90tq
'89 80q
http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/car_home.html

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