10mm allen head bolts. About as hard as you can tighten with an 18 inch
handle.

Daniel Snow
PhD Student
UC Berkeley

'82 Vanagon Diesel
'78 Puch Maxi Luxe Moped
'72 Motobecane Mobylette Moped
'01 Xootr Scooter

>From: jmileham <jmileham@BLUE.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU>
>Reply-To: jmileham <jmileham@BLUE.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: '82 Vanagon 1.6L Diesel Head Bolt Size????
>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:51:48 -0500
>
>Hi all,
>
>One of several questions (from the road) regarding my '82 Diesel Westy.
>(We're *slowly* making our way back from N. Carolina to Iowa...  :-)
>
>It's been about 1000 miles since the new head was put on, so I thought
>I'd pop the gasket cover off today and tighten down the head bolts.  (I'm
>at a relative's place, so this will be pretty slick compared to some of the
>on the road adjustments of the last few days....)
>
>It's been a while - but I seem to recall it needs a hex-head wrench.
>Anyone
>know what size?  (I don't know if there's a difference between the large
>and small head bolt sizes - but if there are - please give me both if
>you've
>got them.)  FYI, it's an '82.  No clue what size head bolt the guy used
>tho....
>(Hopefully the larger, but the guy who built this cut all kinds of corners,
>so
>who knows...)
>
>Also, do I need a breaker bar for this or can I just use my torque wrench?
>
>More questions to follow...  (I did search the archives for this, but the
>vanagon site timed out, and the archives from type2.com appear to only have
>stuff from before the lists separated....)
>
>Many thanks!  John
>
>'82 Wet Westy named Allie

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