Peter, Yes, I used new head bolts, followed the FSM procedure, but used a breaker bar for the ninety degree turns.
-- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net> wrote: >You should only need a torque wrench for the first step of head bolt >tightening, to 35 ft/lbs. After that it's a 90 degree turn, wait 10 >min, do another 90 degrees. If you attempt to use a torque wrench for > >final tightening, you will either break the bolts or leave it too >loose, depending on what you try to use for a torque. These are >stretch bolts, and do NOT have a defined final torque. > >Not only that, buy my friend Hans strongly recommends tossing them any > >time you take the head off and put brand new ones in. It's fine to >reuse them on the gassers if they aren't stretched too much, but he's >never had a head seal properly for long if you re-use the diesel ones. > >Much cheaper than a new head gasket set. > >Can't help you on the lifter bore, you might want to take it too a >good head shop and see if they can sleeve it for you. > >Peter > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
