<div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Bob Haskell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rchaskell@earthlink.net" target="_blank">rchaskell@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Listers,<br>
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.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Bob Haskell<br>
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