[Peugeot-L] Re: 2.5 TD Loss of Coolant

OnWhen I re-torqued earlier this year Brian Holm advised not to do it. It ended up being fine. Big concern for you with the later motor is if you have stretch bolts, Brian R and I have the earlier 4 cyl diesel without the stretch bolts. You cant reorque stretch bolts. Since I had already started, I continued with the best advice I could get, specifically completely removing each head bolt individually, cleaning them (I actually re-inserted the cleaned bolt to get more dirt out of the hole and cleaned them again). Then dip in motor oil and torque.

I would be patient and wait for a couple more folks to chime in on this.

best

David Shuman

• In peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Rodgers" <brians.outfit@...> wrote:
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  > Do you have the book for the engine?
  > I would absolutely torque the head bolts first thing then adjust the
  > valves while in there. There is something about the head bolts that
  > threw me for a while. One of the Peugeot mechanics will chime in and
  > let you know which bolts can re-torqued. I worried fro a short while
  > tried to figure which ones were on our 1981 505s td then just did it.
  > The massive amount of white smoke on starting also went away as did
  > the expansion of the coolant lines, of course I had to replace the
  > radiator fan switch which kicked off the whole affair. Compared to the
  > head gasket replacement job I was beginning to think I was in for, the
  > re-torque was a snap.
  > I don't know how much coolant was leaking out because I bought the 505
  > with the mechanic's diagnosis that it needed a head gasket, my guess
  > is, like your car it was blowing coolant through the head gasket too.
  >
  > Do it before it gets worse
  >
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  > On Dec 30, 2007 12:56 AM, Kurt Blaschke <kurtblaschke@...> wrote:
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  > > It's not the return hose on the heater...The pop bottle didn't fill up and I
  > > lost coolant...Thanks for the suggestion, Dave...I can only imagine that it
  > > is the head gasket...
  > >
  > > To: peugeot-L@...: brians.outfit@...: Sat, 29 Dec
  > > 2007 20:31:26 -0700Subject: [Peugeot-L] 2.5 TD Loss of Coolant
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  > > Ah, good question.The way I do this is to go to our group page and copy the
  > > urlThen open a second browser tab or window and go to
  > > http://google.comAdvanced settingspaste the yahoo group url in the box for
  > > URL to searchAdd your search words and let Google do the work.Someone else
  > > may know a better way please let us knowOn Dec 29, 2007 7:37 PM, Kurt
  > > Blaschke <kurtblaschke@...> wrote:>> Hi Brian,> How do I go about
  > > searching the archives? Thanks so much.> Kurt>>>>>>
  > > ________________________________> To: peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com> From:
  > > brians.outfit@...> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:15:17 -0700> Subject: Re:
  > > [Peugeot-L] 2.5 TD Loss of Coolant>>>>>> Search the group for this problem.>
  > > Our 505td used to pressurize the coolant system. I followed the> groups
  > > directions and re-torqued the heads. Knock on wood, no more> problem>> -->
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