take a look at this....might have seen it before or maybe not....give it a look and see if this is the way that you were doing it...
http://www.bobmartinco.com/pdf/safety_tying_wire.pdf
Are you saying you do not torque them to the 204 in/lbs value then?Solid dowel pins r a must and dont tighten as much your cutting the gasket by over tightening then it pushes out of the way and leaks. use a little short wrech or a 1/4 drive ratchet thats short and use red loctite and just snug them down I had the same problem and realized it was my fault. lol
Ralph
A good bolt should strip out the aluminum threads in the block before it breaks off.
I used calipers as well to check my depth, I only drilled into the block about 1/8-3/16", I wanted most of the threads left in the block still, I think Dynodon took too many out.
And in my original post before the old bobs forum died, this was a FIX for my side cover that had already come loose and oblonged the dowel holes in the block. Basically a couple of the bolts holes get hollow dowels added, or you can do them all if you want.
Whats the part number for the cometic gaskets? What thickness?I went fastnel and got new bolts 10.9 and my cometic gasket and high heat loctite then torqued to 204 in/lbs , had no problems other than the track i run at dont like the cometic gaskets , i guss because they dont leak.
thanks jeff..