[Healeys] retorquing cylinder head nuts

[Richard Ewald]

Yes you must loosen a nut/bolt before torquing.  It makes more torque to
break the nut/bolt loose than it does to keep it turning.

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Bob Haskell <rchaskell at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> 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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