So Dave?
I do not understand why if it is leaking coolant
retorquing might not help.   In my case it appears to
leak after I shut the engine down?
            thanks gary
leaking on the pavement, this won't help.
HTH
Dave

Date:    Sat, 21 Dec 2002 13:57:27 -0800
From:    Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@TSSGI.COM>
Subject: Re: Retorgueing Heads

As long as you're prepared for the consequences, I
agree.

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Of Milo's Kitchen
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 5:32 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Retorgueing Heads

Not to incur the slings and arrows of angry listers
but, go ahead and
have
the professional mechanic retorque the heads. By it's
very definition,
Retorgueing means (in this isolated case) draining the
coolant, backing
off
the head nut (one at a time in proper order) and
bringing them back up
to
proper torque. If a stud is going to break, most
likely it will break
anyway. Just don't have at it and try bringing up the
torque from its
corroded in place state. Okay I'll admit it, after
replacing two heads
and
suffering the classic "huffing coolant from the
recovery tank" symptoms
after about 600 miles, I retorqued my heads to 40 (!)
foot-pounds,
(hey,
I'll have to take the SOBs off again anyway so why
not? calibrated T/W
BTW),
and no more problems of that sort. If the coolant
system is being
pressurized by combustion gas, it will either work, or
it won't. If
it's
leaking on the pavement, this won't help.
HTH
Dave

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