oily huh... heck. It was still rather oily down the bolt hole so maybe I'm ok. Anyway, There's a new engine in the works and I already have a replacement head gasket on hand, just in case I screwed it up seriously. This is the price I pay for choosing humanistic and biological sciences for my degrees.
Anyway, what I meant about the screwing up the torque gauge is that all the mechanics guides I've read warn about *never* using a torque wrench to break a bolt free. It's supposed to screw them up in some unspecified way. I imagine it would affect tension and reduce accurracy.
So.. the torque should be as listed in the Haynes manual?
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1967 P220 (My every-other-daily driver...), 1971 P1800 (The Parts Car), 1972 145S (1993-1997), 1977 245 DL (1993-1999), 1983 245 (1998-2001), 1986 745 GLE (1997-2005), 1990 745 GL (2003-4), 1995 945 (2005-Present)....
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