> but if you work on German cars (my experience is limited to building engines
> for rabbits for racing) you find yourself not only blowing head gaskets if
> you relax a bolt to retorque it, but throwing away head bolts every time you
> use them--they are necked to stretch and don't work a second time.
Interesting ... I guess I'm glad nobody told me that before. Only Rabbit I ever
wrenched on was given to me with what turned out to be a blown head gasket. Had
nothing to lose so I pulled the head, dressed it with a big flat file and put it
back together with a new gasket. It was still running fine probably 5 years
later, when my step-son sold it. But it was a long way from a racing engine ...
basically bone stock right down to the mechanical, continuous flow fuel
injection.
Randall
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