Kent crossflow head refitting.

[blondini]

Hi, can anyone kindly advise me of the tightening sequence and torque settings for the cylinder head bolts on ye olde kent crossflow. It's a 711M block with flat head.

[Mr2Mike]

This is from "Rebuilding and Tuning Ford's Kent Crossflow engine"



Sequence from the same book:

Ensure the shorter bolts are fitted to positions 4 and 6.
Seat the bolts by torquing to 5 lbft (7 Nm)
Torque to between 20 and 31 lbft (28 to 42 Nm)
Torque to between 52 and 56 lbft (70 to 76 Nm)
Wait 15 minutes
Final torque to 66 to 71lbft (90 to 97 Nm)

Not sure why they specify a range rather than a single target value?


BTW, is your username anything to do with "Goodbye Pork Pie" ?

Edited by Mr2Mike on Wednesday 2nd June 23:55

[blondini]

That's great Mike, thanks.

Mr2Mike said:

BTW, is your username anything to do with "Goodbye Pork Pie" ?

Yeah, you got it.