[V8] Retorqueing heads

[Dag Bøsterud]

I retorqued the right cylinder head of my 92 V8 4.2 today. A bit too early 
to tell if it made any differense, but I noticed a funny thing. As you 
people reading the mailing list may know, the head gaskets were changed 
about one month ago, and the car has moved little since. New cylinder head 
bolts were of course used.

When retorqueing the heads (I did it only to the right, where the leak is), 
I noticed that the two front bolts seemed less torqued than the other 
eight... But I can assure you that they were torqued down to specs.

Sounds strange...????

/Dag
92 V8 4.2



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Jager" <pjager at telus.net>
To: <V8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: [V8] Retorqueing heads


>
> My car low miles engine head gaskets done under warranty - say 40K miles.
> By 60K miles it was leaking again.
>
> The dealer selling the car (to me a 60K miles) had the old line "its the
> distributor seals, they tend to leak" that was BS..
>
> So after how many winters of 'ol smokey we pull the distributor seals and
> they are like new of course. I've put 60K miles on the car, now at 120K.
>
> So yeah milled and grilled it may do the deal, but I would also just hit 
> the
> area around the oil port with some really good gasket compound, maybe
> urethane based if it exists these days I don't know. I've only done a 
> couple
> of head gaskets  - MGB's Fiats and recently a Porsche 928.
>
>
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