Cylinder Head torquing

[Guymo]

Hi all

I was wondering if any of the long-term gs riders had anything to say about re-torquing the cylinder head at 4000 miles?
It seems unnecessary to me, though im used to water cooled engines.
I did the head gasket on my mini and it says to re torque them after 1000kms and after that you never have to do it again.

[jacob_ns]

I'd just give the hex bolts a tweak with a socket wrench to see if they move.

[gsJack]

I bought my 97 new and put 80k miles on it and never touched the head bolts.  My 02 had a tight bucket that caused a broken exhaust valve and I had to pull the head to repair.  I torqued it down at 21k miles and haven't touched it since, have 95k miles on it now and it still runs good as new.

[sledge]

Must have bought and sold about 40 GS5s now, at least a third of them have had leaky base gaskets. ALL of those took a bit extra on the bolts..........go figure