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Are you supposed to buy new head bolts when you take your heads off?

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Old 10-08-2003, 12:28 PM
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Are you supposed to buy new head bolts when you take your heads off?
Mine have never been off, 100k miles. Thanks for the input.
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Old 10-08-2003, 12:45 PM
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I believe you are suppose to because the stock ones are "Strech to Torque" and I believe the likelyhood of failure on old ones is high (overstrech)if you try to reuse them.
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for like 50 bucks you can get a set of arp head bolts.. that falls under the category of "cheap insurance" better than thinking what if?
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I got my new set through GM for 20 bucks. Jason Cromer is the man! They came with Locktite on them already and worked great....can only use them once though.

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