What are the chances my head could back fire on me? I don't have a torque wrench so I'm pretty much hand tightening everything back together. I'm trying to put all the pieces back with as much as I remember when removing the head, so that I can drive it over to a real shop and have them professionally line everything together, bolts at right torque, etc etc.

But before I start it, I heard that if one thing is wrong, it could back fire or worse..

Is there anything I need to check before doing that?
Such as valves springs, head gasket (just bought a new one), etc etc?

 

i personally wouldnt be putting the head back on without a tq wrench

 

you can use the bad a daa daaad method.. (sound of 1/2" impact") lol jk.

i would just go buy a tq wrench , rent one or something, cam cap tq and head tq you dont want to screw up