JAW91
10+ Year Contributor
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- Dec 16, 2008
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Orlando,
Florida
I just recently installed new valve stem seals and revised lifters on my head because I was getting a little bit of white smoke on start-up and lifter tick. Since I was pretty much taking everything apart anyways, I figured I might as well change the head gasket since it had an unknown head gasket on it. I bought a new Felpro permatorque head gasket to change it out with (I'm pretty positive it was a cometic), it wasn't leaking before but I did not trust it since I was also going to a bigger turbo (from the 14b to the Evo III 16g) anyways, I changed everything out, torqued all the head studs to 85 lb ft and its leaking coolant at the head gasket (This was torqued with a torque wrench from harbor freight so I'm not sure exactly how accurate it is but I can't get my hands on a better one until Monday so I used what I had) but I was able to start the car and get it warm at least. I am going to pull the valve cover off tomorrow probably and make sure they are all still at 85 lb ft. I was wondering if maybe someone might know of another reason why it might be leaking? I torqued the head in sequence from the center out which is how it was according a post on here that I found. I also torqued the bolts the first round to 40, then 50, then 60, then 70, then 85 so I did it in a 5 step process. I'm not exactly sure whats wrong but I'm hoping my torque wrench is just garbage and that's why because its not that bad of a leak but it does leak.