swedishbiker wrote on 07/17/13 at 09:51:37:Do you open the head bolt a little first and then torque or torque without that?
The proper way to torque the head is labor intensive, and usuallly occurs when the head plug leak is fixed. Two of the head studs are not accessible with the head cover attached, and it takes a lot of work to get the head cover off, cleaned up, resealed and bolted back on.
The cylinder nuts get stuck with the heat cycles and washing and drying and corroding and they can only be torqued properly if you take them off, clean them and apply new anti-sieze....then put them back on and torque them.
I'm use to loosen before redraw. So for me it makes sens to loosen them up first. Have read posts of broken bolts
here.