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| Head Troque Settings for an old Unive... |
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Gary Baker
| | Posted on Monday, April 01, 2002 - 11:56 am: | 
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Have bought the replacement manual from this site-- but the manual doesn't have torque settings for head and manifold.
Are there any "Rules of Thumb" for 4 cyl low compression flatheads like a Universal?
Gary Baker |
olarry
| | Posted on Monday, April 01, 2002 - 12:18 pm: |
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The rules of thumb relate to the size of the bolts,so what bolts do you have? |
miro
| | Posted on Monday, April 01, 2002 - 11:14 pm: |
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I found that torquing down the head once is not good enough. I was told ( and I did it) to torque the head and then run the engine to warm it up well and then re-torque the head . When you do it the second time, it feels as if you had not torqued the bolts the first time. Weird but it works.
The engine that I worked on was a 6 cylinder Buchahan based on a Hercules block ( very similar to a Chris Craft) 1950 era engine.
miro |
andrew
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 02, 2002 - 11:36 am: |
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Here is a table with torque for various bolt sizes...
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andrew
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 02, 2002 - 07:43 pm: |
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Gary,
If you don't know what class of bolt you have you "should" be able to detirmine the class of bolt by the radial lines on the head, but I am not sure when that convention was started... may not apply to the bolts on your engine... see attached.
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