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cylinder head advice

Some of those old air cooled blocks that come in for a big bore and there is a 40 year old base gasket stuck on the bottom. No, problem....Heat it up, drop the liners out, machine the gasket off, heat it up again, drop the liners back in, then off to the boring machine. There is a video on the APE facebook page.
 
It's definately head gasket area. I havent tried retorquing yet. Are all the head bolts accessable from the out side or will I need to remove the valve cover to get at a few?
 
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Sweet! I just changed the oil and filter and cleaned the mess off the fins, so now is an excellent time to try retorquing. I'll be trying that first.
 
Let me double check..has been a while and I am tired ass heck. Loading a parts fiche now. 79 850??? Like above that picture???
 
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Yeah my memory was right. Two outer ones on each side have the chrome acorns Then there are 4 inner ones around the plug holes that have regular nuts. And I believe theres is one that comes up from the bottom in the front of the engine..has a 10 MM head.

Then there are two at each side between the chrome acorns. Look up a manual at Bikecliff website for torque specs.
 
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