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Originally Posted by king-918
You should have put oil on just the threads of the bolt to insure proper/even torque. If you use anything else you have already made a mistake. Check for bearing noise
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This is absolutely not right! Many of the bolt holes in the block are open to the water-jackets around the cylinders. If you don't use a thread sealer, you WILL have a leak....around every one of them.
I found this out "the hard way" more than 30 years ago, when rebuilding my first 350. Everything I read at the time gave torque specs for "lightly oiled" threads and said nothing about the sealer on the head bolts. I don't know whether it was just an over-site or they expected readers to know this?
Big mistake, cost me several hours to backtrack and repair...
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Originally Posted by Longhorn Man
As for reading directions...
The directions are nothing but another man's opinion.
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Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make them all yourself...
Bad planning on your part does not necessarily constitute an instant emergency on my part....
The great thing about being a pessimist is that you are either pleasantly surprised or right.
