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Hi there Thanks for the reply. Sound advice and I agree that if one's certain it needs doing then no point faffing about. But leaving that aside for a moment, what do you think of the general concern of weakening or stripping threads from over-use? My experience with 1.6td owners and mechanics is th...

Hello volks (this post edited to rephrase more simply) Does taking the cylinder head on and off (1.6td jx engine) weaken the threads in the block? In other words, is this operation something to be done in moderation? Having worked on many 2-stroke engines and had crankcase threads go from over-use w...