Reinstalling cylinders
Road Warrior
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you should do this to make sure you have the proper guaged cometic gasket, unless everything is stock...in which case, your head gasket should be a stock .045
and no, you do not use the o-rings with cometic gaskets....also, cometic likes you to use their torque procedures...not what's outlined in the HD manual
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Gasket sets that don't need the dowel O rings don't come with them.
Tourer
Joined: Aug 2009
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From: central Mississippi
No on the o rings with the cometic head gaskets, or the newer stock Harley head gaskets. They don't use them. Be careful torquing those cometic gaskets down. Their instructions call for a torque of 42 ft lbs. Go easy, you don't want to pull a stud out of the crankcase. I just went through that little repair.
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Cruiser
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Got her all locked down now. Followed cometic torque procedure, and went back after a couple of hours and rechecked to make sure all was well. Started to do push rods and rocker boxes, but decided to repaint lifter blocks ( I know, I should have done that already) and with that, wanted to get rid of the 12 point bolts and change em to Allen head.
She's coming back together ok so far. Should know for sure tomorrow when I fire her back up.
She's coming back together ok so far. Should know for sure tomorrow when I fire her back up.
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