header torque
Team Owner
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 32,519
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From: central America
St. Jude Donor '08-'09
Gosh, I just did the old quarter past tight when I put my headers on. I can't tell if the leak, cause with open headers I can't hear a darn thing.
Hopefully someone will chime in, and I may be out in the shop retightening them.
trw
Hopefully someone will chime in, and I may be out in the shop retightening them.
trw
Drifting
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,950
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From: Chino Hills CA
Header bolts are so hard to install even with a wrench, impossible with a socket, how could you possibly get a torque wrench on them. Anyway, 3/8" bolts in cast iron is usually 30 to 40 ft-lb.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Nov 2005
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From: Breckenridge Colorado
Originally Posted by lowbuck72
Header bolts are so hard to install even with a wrench, impossible with a socket, how could you possibly get a torque wrench on them. Anyway, 3/8" bolts in cast iron is usually 30 to 40 ft-lb.
I used a torque wrench on mine and got them all at about 35. Easiest way I could detect leaks there were to start the car and I used a spray bottle and just sprayed a little water on the header gasket area as I would pull back on the throttle and I just looked for small bubbling (obviously I had to do this when the car was cold). I did have a slight leak on one and just torqued it down a bit harder and it stopped leaking.
