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Re: Head gasket coolant leak. Anders, Dean Posted by SWEDECAR [Email] ![]() ![]() ![]() In Reply to: Head gasket coolant leak. Anders, Dean, Giovanni, Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:25:42 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Ok, without knowing what bolts you have in the engine it really makes it difficult to guess.
If you reused the bolts and they were in fact the ones that I say is/might be bad, your problem might lie just there (the bolts decided to give way and stretch again).
I don't know for sure but I am more and more convinced that the metal used in those bolts (not only the coating) might have been of substandard material allowing them to stretch.
That's what happened when I tried them in 2001. They didn't even make it to the 80Nm torque but gave up and just started to stretch and create a waist line until I pulled them out.
If you can't find the "old style bolts" I feel that the new ones from Saab are still doing a lot better work than those installed between 97 and 2001.
Anders
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