My Fabia vRS is going into a garage this week to have a head gasket and someone mentioned putting some type of bolt on - but I can't remember what bolts they were - does anyone know what they are?

Thanks.

Edited 27 April, 201412 yr by Bevan93

That'll likely be head bolts. These are what secure the head to the bottom end, and typically stretch when they are tightened. Hence new ones are usually required.

 

Lots of people have upgraded their head bolts to the type fitted to the PD150. So it may be a good idea to do that now.... 

As said above, replace the bolts.

You can replace them with pd150 head bolts as they have a higher tensile strength.

So the PD150 head bolts are better for the PD130 head?

Edited 29 April, 201412 yr by Bevan93

As above, they are stronger.

 

If you end up tuning your Fabia then they will help prevent head lift also.

Just bought a vrs that recently had a head gasket change and new pd150 bolts fitted. Guy said I needed to retorque the bolts after a little while. Trying to find info on this but not found anything. Can anybody tell me if this is true. Not sure how you'd retorque them as they need angle torquing.

 

Cheers

I just replaced my headbolts to PD150 as had slow coolant leak on motorway runs - possibly head lift and it solved problem ! I torqued like this 40 60 then two 90degree turns. It gets a bit sweaty on the last 90 but stick with it [emoji16]

Just bought a vrs that recently had a head gasket change and new pd150 bolts fitted. Guy said I needed to retorque the bolts after a little while. Trying to find info on this but not found anything. Can anybody tell me if this is true. Not sure how you'd retorque them as they need angle torquing.

 

Cheers

I think you've most likely not found info on this because it isn't true. I may be wrong, see what others say.

I think you've most likely not found info on this because it isn't true. I may be wrong, see what others say.

 

Re-torquing is rubbish,  As long as they are done to the manual first time, there is no torqueing required later.  They will have stretched to fit and then be fine.

I just replaced my headbolts to PD150 as had slow coolant leak on motorway runs - possibly head lift and it solved problem ! I torqued like this 40 60 then two 90degree turns. It gets a bit sweaty on the last 90 but stick with it [emoji16]

 

capers, have you changed the head gasket also?

 

I just left my car for this same reason (coolant loss under high load, especially highway) and I've mentioned that just re-tightening the bolts might help, read it somewhere here on the forum (one instance for Fabia vRS, other for an Octavia).

 

Does anyone have the PD150 bolts parts number? What about Ibiza Cupra head bolts, that is the PD160 engine?

Cheers thats what I thought as no way to get the correct angle again after its been done the first time.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PD150-ARL-Head-Bolt-Set-for-1-9-2-0-8v-TDI-PD-Engines-ASZ-PD130-AJM-PD115-BLS-/141205090254?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20e07aafce

Also found out the codes:

 

PD130 ASZ bolts - 038 103 384 [Victor Reinz - about 25€]

 

PD150 ARL bolts - 038 103 384 C [Victor Reinz - about 23€]

 

The PD160 Cupra engine has the head bolts as PD130 ASZ.