Head bolts & piston journal bolts can be reuse?

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08-26-2002, 05:03 AM

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Head bolts & piston journal bolts can be reuse?

I am doing a rebuild on the A4 1.8T.
It has a new headbolt style on it (with 6 points
corners). I would like to know if I can reuse
the headbolt and also the piston journal bolts
that is bolted to the crankshaft...not the
crankshaft journal bolts. I left the crankshaft
intack...its in excellent condition.

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08-26-2002, 05:24 AM

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Head bolts A MUST replace & piston journal bolts -not sure about them suckers.

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08-26-2002, 08:00 AM

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Depends.Should be a set of specs on max. length/stretch. Need to be measured to see if within spec.

Of course if Audi says to replace them,that's what you do.

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08-26-2002, 10:24 AM

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Audi says to replace the head bolts.....

I'm not sure what you mean by piston journal bolts? Are you talking about rod bolts?

I have ARP rod bolts in mine, and for now, I reused the stock headbolts while I'm waiting for the head studs to get here. I figured if I was going to spend the money on new bolts, it might as well go towards studs...
Check out <a href="http://www.raceware-fasteners.com/">http://www.raceware-fasteners.com/</a> for details.

I would highly suggest having the rotating assembly balanced. At the very least, do the rods, my VW 2.0 rods were off by as much as 4 grams.