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Originally Posted by NY65912
My friend mentioned that the bolts will not have to be re-torqued after break in if the steps below are followed.
"Take out 1 bolt at a time in the correct sequence
4 steps:
On new gasket with lightly oiled New Bolts:
65 ft lbs
90 ft lbs
110 ft lbs
110 ft lbs again
No need for re-torque."
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For 7.3 engines, those are incorrect numbers. The final torque is 95 lbs. and the earlier engines, (‘95-‘97), called for 105, IIRC. I was remembering wrong in post above, the number went down, not up during the production run of the 7.3.
110 lbs. would be significantly higher than factory spec for my engine, which is stock.
Factory shop manual:
