Never. Infinity miles. That is what I have always done. Ken On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:48 AM, J Stewart <fonman4277@comcast.net> wrote: > I finally got around to getting my '85 Westy back on the road (out of > necessity, my house is sold and I have to be out in two weeks!) To recap: > right side head gasket blew, replaced gasket and re-used original head. 400 > miles later head starts leaking again, this time around one of the head > nuts. Thought is that maybe the head cracked. So, did the job again, this > time with a new head. I now have about 300 miles and no problems so far. > Question is: should the head be re-torqued at XXX miles? Jeff > > Jeff Stewart PLEASE NOTE: My cell phone number has changed to 703-674-9733 >
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