[Healeys] retorquing cylinder head nuts

Oudesluys coudesluijs at chello.nl
Sat May 16 01:24:38 MDT 2015


When re-torquing bolts/nuts I always break them loose by loosening them 
the smallest angle possible before I re-tighten them.
Kees Oudesluijs



Bob Haskell schreef op 16-5-2015 om 3:33:
> Listers,
> When retorquing cylinder head, should one loosen the nut being retorqued first? Not completely loose, but I would think that a nut could be under torqued, but would take more than the spec torque to break it loose.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob Haskell
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