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BTW: The Alfa specialist I worked for in NZ (during Uni holidays) had a very interesting extra for looking after head gaskets on these motors.
On his own personal car (and where he could with customers) he continued to retorque the head (when cold obviously) about once a week until he could feel that he was not going to get any more, and thus the head and gasket had finally seated. This was a modified motor with a slightly higher compression ratio and he had NOT had the head off for over 2 seasons of racing and cruising.
Thus when I rebuild my 105 engine I will be doing this also until I feel that the nuts will not go any further for that correct tighting torque.
His belief, and now mine, is that the open design of the block, etc. allows the liners and head to move around and thus the tighting torque is not maintained and thus many more goes than just the one retorque is required.
This might be a load of cr@p ... but his car is proof and when he does a head gasket for a customer he retorques the same every time he can ... and they are fine. When you think about how easy these engines are to retorque ... worth doing I think.
Pete
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... definitely standard torque. He would slacken a little, oil and then retorque. He usually found that he got an extra degree or so of turn with the same torque setting.
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