Digger, this whole thing has been a debating point since I first got here. Back then, it was about the necessity of getting oil (or grease) on the threads of the studs/nuts so things would pull up right.
Just putting oil over the tops of the engaged fasteners just doesn't do the job, they still stick and twist the studs when you retorque unless the lube is worked deep into the fastener and
the lube is heavy enough to withstand the torque you are laying down on it. Light oil or penetrating oil simply won't do the job.
The discussions then became grease vs oil (I like never-sieze personally for the grease as it sticks around in the joint pretty good for next time).
Then it was all about how to get it in there without breaking the head gasket compression bond.
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That was back then, now it seems its about people talking about different scenarios of applying a torque job,
one is talking a new virgin stack pull up (yes, alternate in a pattern and pull up slowly with grease on the threads)
one is talking recovering from an overtorque (if you went to 36 ft pounds, then yes you probably went past the elastic point into deformation)
one is talking simple retorque according to Suzuki full shop manual (which goes all the way back to the original discussion wars)
And nobody is really clarifying which one they are speaking to and it is possibly confusing to a "unclarified" reader down the road a bit.
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And about them mythical newbies -- they are the really green dudes that dig up your posts years after you make them and and repost them along with the trouble they got into for partially following them.
(what little they understood, anyway)
Them Durned Newbies have done some whacked stuff before on this list -- so I try to consider them when posting critical or dangerous stuff.
More so now than I used to, anyway.