With the mass-produced cars of 30 years ago the chances are that studs and
nuts were used as delivered - so that would probably mean a light coating of
oil. Or am I assuming too much?
Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jay_Laifman@countrywide.com>
To: <british-cars@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 4:49 PM
Subject: Torquing Heads
> I had a neat little pamphlet from Felpro about their head gaskets. The
> pamphlet had pages and pages of charts showing the torquing methods for
all
> sorts of cars. I read through some of them. It was amazing the different
> methods. Most did it in stages - like 15 lbs for all first, 25, 35 ...
> (those are just numbers thrown out there for example, each car seemed to
> have different steps). Others, with or without steps, went up to the
final
> torque number, then backed down a partial turn, then back up. All sorts
of
> combinations. So, I think the bottom line point is to simply do what the
> factory for your car recommended - ie hot, cold, dry, wet, steps, etc. -
> though I'm pretty sure my Alpine factory manuals only give the final
> setting and don't say anything about wet or dry.
>
> Jay
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