Yeah i know the studs are 42 but the coarser thread of the bolts requires a stronger torque to create the same clamping force, IMO

I have been using the silver tin/graphite type gaskets, but i seem to have problems with them. I'm using a monotorque this time.


I have only had a stud break once, got itself right out of the engine and went missing


So no one can tell me the recommended torque????

Oh crap,,, is this still going

Alrighty, its my fault that there is al this "banter" about copper head gaskets. There was a thread a while ago, a bunch of people (everyone on here) said they "blow so hell no" and I said I've always used em on my motors with out issue.

So after everyone tried to convience me I was mad, and a few experts got involved and tried to tell me I was seeing things I went and started some research (I know I know,, pretty bad bit of OCD there )

Heres what I have found so far;

There are 3 main manufactures of copper head gaskets for A series motors, Payen, Rover and I forget the third but if you really want to know I'll find out and put it up. Now at least one of these guys ""claims"" to have a different type of composite... its my bet that I was just lucky enough to be buying them from one of the manufactures that have a combo that works. ***** BUT***** After reading everyones testimony that they "don't work" I personally am not going to risk it anymore and the motors I do from now on I am going to use BK450's...

Now there are probably a couple of you out there who knew this but BK450 does not always mean ""metro turbo gasket"" the bastards that make these gaskets thought it would be halarious to use the same part number for multiple products. The standard one which has a 4cc compressed volume and the turbo one has a 3.1cc compressed volume.. Maybe some one can explain that, I don't get it. I thought that the turbo gasket might have held more so that it also had so de compressing capabilities as a posed to jacked the comp ratio up?

So there you go... the ""Copper Head Gasket Guy"" doesn't use em any more either

It's the boobs and testosterone that make this place fun-ner !!

It's not nice to throw spank on the floor.

Allrighty then...

Anyone got a spare set of studs, nuts and washers?

Yes

It's the boobs and testosterone that make this place fun-ner !!

It's not nice to throw spank on the floor.

Well.....

What is a set worth?

Some recent new studs are rubbish, God knows where they come from before they get to UK.

The genuine original thick head stud "washers" are getting a bit hard to find 2nd hand,,, i really don`t like those (so called) "competition" thin cone shaped things,,, for a start they are way to large in diam & 2ndly they are just crap thin & you need a few piled ontop of eachother to take up the distance normally needed to make sure you don`t have the nuts bottoming on the end of the thread on the stud,,, shall i keep going?