by bgsengine » Thu Sep 16, 2021 10:02 pm
as long as engine is cold, just remove the necessary bolts (may be as many as 3 or 4 in some cases) and torque down to specs when finished. Just be sure the engine is dead cold (room temperature) and you'll be fine - as long as the head itself does not move in relation to the block and gasket , it is even possible to remove all but one bolt , and then put them back in to specs, if it came to that. (Not so with torque angle and torque to yield bolts though, but you'll never see those on engines that have brackets bolted by way of head bolts, etc.)
How poor are they who have not patience. What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? - Iago (Othello Act II, Scene 3)