BILL, here, I was setting my alloy head 62 RGS at 34 pounds as per my Haynes manual. I am running 9 to 1, and an old timer told me Haynes sucks, alloy heads can distort at that much torque, and head gasket can leak, which is exactly what happened to me, until I started torqueing at 26 to 27 lbs, never had a problem since. Also exercise your torque wrench if it sits for 2 to 5 years in between uses, like mine does, it gets the lubricants around inside to where they should be. I do about 20 click stops on my Ford van lug nuts before torqueing down my cylinder head, so torque wrench is accurately operating. Now I do not know about Iron heads, I am guessing you could use 34 pounds, they would not distort as easily. What say you Musky, you raced these, can the Iron heads be torqued to 34 pounds without leakage ? I do not know if you need to do this, he also said get the bike up to operating temperature, and shut it off, let sit over night, and re-torque head, I had 3 that were light on second torqueing. Not sure the second torqueing is a must, but that is the way I did it 10 years ago, no problems since.
