Hed Stud and Nut Torqueing

["Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John:

Thanks for straightening all this out.  Especially the part about the beer.
I'd hate to pick up someone else's glass.

We're all dying to know if the leak went away, so be sure to let us know.

By the way, with a new head gasket, I think you should do the re-torque
process after a thousand miles or so....correct, TC?

The re-torque is done one nut at a time.  You loosen the nut, tighten to 20
NM
and tighten 180 degrees (not 2X90), then do the one across according to the
pattern.  Then you do the allen/torx bolt...40NM.

After that, you should be golden.

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>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:00:10 -0400
From: "John Dancoe" <jdan@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Head Stud and Nut Torqueing

>Tom Brown wrote:

>>Not sure which "Tom" you're referring to...

>And Tom Cutter wrote:

>>I never wrote that I went for a beer.

>Dunno why, but boy did people get confused about this post!

>Not that's important, but here's the summary of who said what:

>1. Tom CUTTER wrote he'd only seen one stud pull out, on a crash-damaged
bike.

>2. I (JD) described my own original precautionary additions to the
angle-torque method, and referred only to Tom CUTTER in this particular post.

>3. "more than once I think" is how many times I (JD) believes Tom CUTTER has
described the factory-specified method.

>4. I (JD) drank a celebratory beer when I was done with the work. That might
or might not have actually happened (but it probably did). However, I (JD)
was
actually alluding to someone else (obviously NOT Tom C.), who not long ago
wrote about going for a beer after completing a repair. I think it might even
have been this same thread.

>Regards,
>John Dancoe '93 R1100RS

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