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| | | | Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 18 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 18 | Do I need to torque the head bolts, had a complete overhaul. Getting ready to drive it for the first time. It is a 54, 235. Thanks | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,792 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,792 | It depends on the head gasket design. The conventional wisdom way back when these engines were new was to warm the engine up to normal operating temperature, do a hot retorque on the head bolts, and readjust the valves hot. Some of the newer head gaskets claim to be "no-retorque" types, but since the head bolts on a stovebolt 6 are so easy to reach, I'll usually do a hot retorque anyway.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Now come on Jerry, tell us again how you get to that one head bolt betwix 3&4 with out pulling the rocker assembly off?????
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Sanwdwich, IL
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Sandwich, IL
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