The angle called for in the shop manual is 300deg. That may be the problem
if you only turned it 160.
With all his experience, I am sure your father cleaned the bolt holes with
a tap and blew any liquid out with compressed air. Failing to do that
could also cause the problem you describe.
Brian Holm
At 11:12 PM 5/12/1999 EDT, Jepp114@aol.com wrote:
>Frank,
>Hey, thanx for all that advice and stuff. Well, I wasn't the only one doing
>the Headgasket on my car, my dad was helping.
>
>My dad's been a mechanic more than 20 years, and he's done a bunch of
>headgaskets. well, heck, he used to be general manager for HC auto care,
>taking care of 9 shops. He's the one they'd turn to if there was a problem
>that they couldn't solve.
>
>About that straight edge stuff, ya, my dad has one of those, he's invested
>thousands and thousands of dollars into all his tools, so he had one, he's
>done a bunch of these headgaskets.(on other cars though)
>
>We once again took it apart, and the onlything we could find is that around
>the whole headgasket, it really didn't seat right, well it didn't get
>smashed, and it really really really didn't seat around the number 4
>cylinder. I don't know, maybe we got a cheap head gasket, or we didn't
>torque it tight enough, cause of those stupid angle torque stages. damnit,
>couldn't they have just told us how tight it should be and not an angle.
>
>If anybody out there knows how tight it should be if the angle tight was
160º
>?
>
>Great big Thanx in advance,
>
>Jeff Tiquia
>Not so bummed anymore cause went to prom and took back apart head in only 2
>hours!! easier!!! yeah =)
>'89 405 Mi16
>Renton, WA
>
>PS Thanx very much for all that...
>
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