G'day,

Dylan has a re-co'ed engine in his Mini. When it was built, it sat in the garage for about 6 months, and has never had the head re-tensioned.

Since fitting the engine, (about 4 weeks ago) he's driven maybe 1000 Km's and its all ok.

Should I re-tension the head or leave it alone????

Thanks

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Rod
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Re-Tension For Sure.

Gasket will compress a bitmore, things will settle, need to re-tension to b safe.

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No more Minis!......For now.

they are tensioned to 50 foot pound just incase you didnt know

cheers

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Yepp - retension and enjoy.

Dad was an engineer before driving trucks and he always believed in the click and nip method(well for diesels anyways). Click to the torque and nip a flat. 500km later nip another flat and all was sweet. Bush mechanics - maybe but the man never broke down.

I am in the sameboat with a complete motor sitting on the bench(found a hornet making a nest in my thermostat housing!!!) so will run the motor and nip up after the first run(whenever the hell that may be!!!)

Hooroo

Rob Forsyth
Miniot!!

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Rob Forsyth
Miniot!!

and back 'em off a bit before re-tensioning (for the uninitiated)

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Too many cars, and too little time.

Good point AWD - hows Safety Bay tonight?

Hooroo

Rob Forsyth
Miniot!!

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Rob Forsyth
Miniot!!

Thanks everyone

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Rod
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v607/Rodney/

Warm & windy (cause it's summer)

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Too many cars, and too little time.

Can't speak for Safety Bay, but Port Kennedy is warm and cosy with clear blue skies.

Everything is perfect in the west!

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.

bloody hot and no wind even at 3 in the morning in sydney

well i tighened down the head but didnt get a chance to adjust the valve rocker clearance while i was at it, so that a job for when im at mum and dads next (i dont think i ahve the right tools). tell me please, is this normal? i tightened them down to 42lb/sq. in in the following sequence (looking down at the head, thse are the studs)

6 2 4 8
7 3 1 5 9

numbers 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 were fine, but 7, 3, 5 and 9 took about a fifth of a turn before the torque wrench clicked. this is ok???

oh and i had to put my front number plate back on too... grrrr

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78 Leyland Mini - Prince