Re-use of fasteners?

[pistolpete]

Just taking my time tearing apart my 8BA and got to thinking as I clean and sort all of the hardware, nuts and bolts. How many people reuse the stock hardware when rebuilding an engine?

The head bolts are in decent shape, the heads have some slight pitting on the sides but bearing surfaces are perfectly fine, there is also a little pitting on a few on the end form being in the water journal, just enough to notice it type thing, just curious what others would do.

 

[skull]

motor

depends on the motor, some have one time stretch to torque type heads bolts that can't be resused.

on SBC with pretty much stock parts l reuse all the bolts that are not damaged.

Later

 

[RPM]

On that motor, reuse all the bolts.