Re: high performance head gaskets for Buick/Rover V-8

["The Becketts" <hillman@bigpond.com>]

Will Parris wrote:
> I have just rebuild my motor Rover 3.5L and used the Fel-Pro blue
> gaskets, and torqued the head as to the ROM specs, now what should I do
> leave it or slack off the short bolts and retorque them to a lower
> torque.


Will, have you run the engine?  If not I wonder if you could back the ALL
off and retorque them?  Otherwise, retorque just the outer row.  Did you
refer to the RPI site re blowby?

Ron Beckett