[Supras] Head Bolt torque

[Jeff Mohler]

What do you mean..slips?

The tool IN the bolt head, or the bolt inthe block?

And your buddy is book wise, but dollar ignorant.  He's never worked
on or known anything about MK3s to say 59 is good.

Im sure hes a nice guy, but lacking the details that WE have, that
Toyota can -never- acknowledge because that would equal liability and
a former recall..hes just party-line.

On 1/29/07, Supraman <supraman88 at verizon.net> wrote:
> I removed my valve covers and cleaned the gunk from the center cover.
> I figured while I was in there, I'd check the torque on the head bolts.
> Spec is 59 ft-lbs, many, many people have told me to go to 70-80 to try
> to avoid head gasket problems.
>
> ALL the head bolts are over 70 ft-lbs, except one: #13, exhaust side
> closest to the firewall. It didn't budge until 65 Ft-Lbs. Evry time I
> get near 70, it 'slips', and slips again, and slips some more. I don't
> dare turn it any more for fear of breaking it. It takes 62-65 ft lbs to
> budge it, a friend of mine who was a Toyota Factory Rep says, It's over
> 59, leave it!
>
> I think I'll take his advice.
>
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