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Chucked the heads on today, this was a mission and a half, would have been easier to pull the motor, neighbour thought it was funny to see me sitting on top of my engine like a monkey torquing the back hex bolt with the alternator bracket up my clacker. My problem is I have torqued heads to vn spec in 3 stages as mentioned above final stage was 102 i torqued them too 100nm. I have spent the rest of the day stewing on weather or not I have fked up, I have since found spec sheet for the vs as above saying to torque head in 2 stages final stage is 83 or 85 I have forgotten already, what's people thoughts, I really don't want to put it back together to have to replace head bolts and gasket again, should I bite the bullet and re do them now before installing inlet and bolt ons or take my chances with what I have done. Appreciate any info as this will keep me awake at night stewing on it.
Also can anyone tell me if the arrows on the rocker arm pivot bolt brackets face inwards or outwards picture is too large to upload cheers for the help.
Cheers for the reply vc commodore, well thats reassuring. I'll take my chance as I really don't want to ever do head gaskets again. Do you know if the arrow on the rocker pivot arm bracket faces inwards or outwards cheersIt'll be fine torquing them to the specs you have
Cheers for the reply vc commodore, well thats reassuring. I'll take my chance as I really don't want to ever do head gaskets again. Do you know if the arrow on the rocker pivot arm bracket faces inwards or outwards cheers
Cheers for the reply vc commodore, well thats reassuring. I'll take my chance as I really don't want to ever do head gaskets again. Do you know if the arrow on the rocker pivot arm bracket faces inwards or outwards cheers
thanks mate, I'll sell the car before I do another head gasket swapThey are on. I'd leave it. Worst case, you have over-torqued the bolts a bit, they won't fail but should they ever be taken out I'd consider replacing them.Thanks mate, I'll sell the car before I do another head gasket.