Yes Sir I most positively certainly DID retorque them after installing it new. I remember because I had to take off the valve cover AGAIN and was so upset about it since I did such a grand job sealing it up... only to HAVE To take it off for the retorque-ing.

I'm going to check the torque on them by this afternoon, starting from the low end & working my way up all around the pattern in the book to see if I can find if any head bolts that maybe happened to UN-torqued themselves.

Should maybe mention that it's leaking from opposite the center of the exhaust manifold going from front of the engine to back - wondering if when the exhaust manifold bolts had worked themselves loose if that caused too much heat to go towards the head instead of away from it behind that giant exhaust gasket and somehow weakened the outside edge of the head gasket.

If need be I got a guy lined up to check the surface level of the head already just in case.

For reference here's what the head gasket looked like last year, looking in that same area I'll take new pics if necessary... and have him triple check the area of the head on that exhaust side area. Last time the hg blew, and I tore it apart, the same area it's leaking coolant to the outside NOW looked to be the worst area I had to clean up then.

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I'll update with what the bolts are all currently torqued at (cold of course) asap.


Have you ever known someone to retorque after leaking coolant and had it not leak and STAY not leaking afterwards?