I was working on a friends engine today, re-installing the heads, I had forgot my factory manuals at home and was using his Hanes manual. I was working on an EJ22 and the torque sequence is very complex. All the way through the steps it is talking about foot pounds, when I get to the thrid form the last step, it suddenly changed to inch pounds. I thought the torque values were really high, but not that high (I've had to torque some head at that value). So in the process of torquing the bolts to that value, one of the bolts broke. So I have to pull the whole engine, and now it is sitting in a machine shop wait from the machinist to come to work on Monday. By the way, there is quite a difference between 11 foot pounds and 132 foot pounds, but 132 inch pounds in close to 11 foot pounds.

That really stinks I'm sorry to hear that. I haven't had that happened to me yet(cross my fingers). I try to only use those manuals for general stuff.

 

Joe

Copying thread over to newgen this would be helpful to those people.

Well, we got the broken part out, the engine is all together, it fired right up, first try. Those of you who have replaced head gaskets know the torquing routine, end with the two 90 degree turns pass last torque value. Well I wonder what the torque value was after those turns, it turns out to be for #1 and #2, 69 ft lbs, for #3 through #6, 55 ft lbs. This is for a N/A engine.