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Originally Posted by rfitzpatrick
What's the maintenance schedual for Head Torque checking? Is it by millage, or, time ? Or what?
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For me, after a head or head gasket is replaced, I torque down to specs, then run the engine for a while, it varies, and then I re torque the head, by loosening each head bolt in the tightening sequence and repeating with each head bolt. What I have discovered using this technique, for me to get the same torque on each, the torque wrench, in all cases, moves further in the tightening direction than originally as loosened. Quite honestly once I have done this, that is it, no more to do unless some related problem shows up. And even at that, I am not sure any retightening had to be done, I just feel better about making sure.