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Title: Cylinder Head torquing
Post by: Guymo on July 21, 2012, 01:45:52 AM

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.

Title: Re: Cylinder Head torquing
Post by: jacob_ns on July 21, 2012, 03:18:23 PM

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

Title: Re: Cylinder Head torquing
Post by: gsJack on July 21, 2012, 05:39:43 PM

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.

Title: Re: Cylinder Head torquing
Post by: sledge on July 21, 2012, 06:44:45 PM

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 :thumb:

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