arp tightening torques?

[roccolister@hotmail.com (Craig Williams)]

Yep...My notes say 65 lbs. with their moly lube stuff and 85 lbs. with 30 
wt. oil.

You should definitly re-torque them. had a problem with my motor about 1000 
miles after putting it together and then not re-torquing it. I took the head 
off and the head gasket looked really bad. I thought I had blown it. It 
wasn't blown, but it was damaged. No one I showed it to had ever seen it 
before, but because I didn't re-torque those studs, it's thought that the 
gasket wasn't as tight as it needed to be.

When I put it all back together after that I went in and re-torqued them and 
there was some movement. It's a pain in the ass with a 16V, but you should 
be doing it.

-- Craig


>From: Anthony Pelletier <vwnuts@yahoo.com>
>To: UrGTI@aol.com, scirocco list <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: arp tightening torques?
>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:20:24 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Actually, I belive its 65 ft/lbs because its an
>aluminum head.
>
>Does anyone bother to retorque them after heatcycling
>the motor?  I haven't bothered to yet, but If there is
>a big difference in torque it might be worth doing.
>
>
>--- UrGTI@aol.com wrote:
> > For the 16v its 70lbs with the special ARP lube or
> > 85 with 30wt oil.
> >
> > Jasin
> >
>
>
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