Austarion

are these reuseable? i'm pretty much all ready to go back together... exciting times!

yep they should be! I would dab them in loctite and torque them up to the proper specs though.

^^^ What he said :) Unless theyre munched up at all they should be sweet torqued up with loctite

cheers guys. a perfectly good day is wasting away outside while i wait on a loan click type torque wrench to arrive. not man enough to use my elderly (and severly uncalibrated) needle type

I know this is an oldish topic but fwiw if you have some serious grunt ARP's are the way to go as my stroker stretched the stock bolts ( yes they were torqued to specs and locktited ) and stuffed the flywheel which rattled so badly I thought that the gearbox was broken :(

Just don't be too liberal with the loctite - if you get loctite on the mating surfaces (flywheel and the crank flange), then you're just relying on the bolts themselves to do all the work - that wont last long. The majority of the strength comes from the two metals binding on each other - the bolts are just there to keep that contact consistent and strong. Surface must remain clean and dry with no possibility of any lubricating liquid in there.

I agree that ARP's are preferred, but having said that, I run stock bolts on my stroker motor and have never had any issues (and I've re-used them many times too).