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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by G-Magoo
Little known fact is the factory heads were not actually torqued down enough, and Toyota, knowing about this never corrected the issue or issued a recall. Torquing the head bolts down to 75ft.lb. or so remedies most of the HG issues.
btw, this "little known fact" has been widely known for ~20 years. it was well doccumented on the old geopages, yahoo pages, sonic, etc.... and is still well doccumented on every supra forum and then some. guess you dont read about toyotas much.
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