N/A head bolt torque with stock head gasket

[Moneypit101]

Does anyone know what the correct torque for the head bolts on a N/A should be using a stock style ceramic head gasket. I just replaced a head gasket for a friend and it seems to be leaking ( white smoke coming from the tailpipe constantly). It's a N/A so I used an extra stock head gasket I had laying around but had the head machined smooth for a metal gasket but he is on a budget so I went with the stock style gasket but I torqued it to 75lbs like a metal gasket, could I have over torqued it and smashed the gasket. It's the only thing I can think that would make it smoke like this as soon as I put it back together. Any Ideas, Thanks.

 

[TurboWarrior]

75 is ok. ive done that setting on the stocker before. Did you replace the head bolts? Have the headbolts ever been this tightly torqued in their lifetime?

How did the block deck look?

Stock style hg? as in not toyota?

 

[WhtMa71]

Smoke have a smell?

 

[Moneypit101]

75 is ok. ive done that setting on the stocker before. Did you replace the head bolts? Have the headbolts ever been this tightly torqued in their lifetime?

How did the block deck look?

Block was clean and I used new head bolts. Is there any other place water can enter the combustion chambers such as the idle air valve or throttle body?

 

[Moneypit101]

Block was clean and I used new head bolts. Is there any other place water can enter the combustion chambers such as the idle air valve or throttle body?

Smoke does not smell like anti freeze.

 

[Moneypit101]

One thing I did not think of was maybe the head has a hairline crack.

 

[Poodles]

possible, but see if the smoke stops after some time...

you just opened the engine up, so you're bound to have vapor and stuff that needs to burn off...

at least it's done it the two times I've had my engine apart...

 

[cuel]

^^ +1 I just did head gaskets on a 92 Explorer today, and it took almost an hour for it to quit smoking. Doesn't help that I accidentally sprayed the hose down the exhaust when I was cleaning out the block.