Head Gasket Go Bye Bye

[niz406]

Well thats the only manual....... well recent manual I've seen where it asks for angle ranges for stage 3, its just to make you buy new and more tools ! lol

[Miles]

The bolt's are a stretch type which really isn;t good for a high boost engine, But I think it's all you can get, I know that ARP do the head bolt's for the ally 205 engine and thats it.
Most manufactures use these bolt's now, I think mainly as the blocks and head are Iron and ally,

Quote' peugeot use a calibrated tensioning device' they don;t in the few I know, I always tension mine from experance and never had a failure, 45 degress twist on the longest side is about right.

As for highflow I've got a engine here which I didn;t know was, and the porting looks and is the worst I;ve ever seen, Well bar a couple of 8v engines too which made low power for the money spent, so stick with the long estabisheb companies for head and engine builds.

[niz406]

Cheers Miles,

The head bolts @ 90nm were a 45 degree turn from the original 70mn mark... I marked the bolt and head faces with a start and end point !

[niz406]

She's all done and dusted... finished it last night, put wheels on and drove it down to reading this morning and I can report that @ 60 mph all the way under 3000rpm the car managed the 156mile journey on only an 1/8th of a tank..........lol Now thats what I call excellent fuel economy !

[Welly]

Well done fella

[niz406]

Yeah I'm happy now lol !

,.jb ;li <--- my misses typed that because I was sat in front of the PC

Won't be long before the MOT... the damn thing had better pass now !

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Nice one!!

Fog

[Captain Jack]

A happy ending - result!!! Very well done!

*pats Niz on the back* < Welton impression

[niz406]

LOl.... well all sounds good !

Taking her out again tomorrow for a drive sp lets see how she goes! will obviously report anymore problems !