babietuan323

i have a hatch with gsr bottom, si head
i'm trying to take my head off to replace my valves, and my friends and i are trying to find out the right size socket for the studs and torque specs

NVturbo

What do you mean...right size sockets? Shouldn't you have a nice set of tools by now? Sounds like you just got your learner's permit yesterday. You have the money..or somehow "access" to a motor and a car, but don't have tools...hmmm..that sounds kinda fishy there!!

93supercoupe

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shut up dude, i had the same question when i went to install mine, there a wierd size, i cant rember but i torqued mine to a final torque of 95 ftlbs

NVturbo

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shut up dude, i had the same question when i went to install mine, there a wierd size, i cant rember but i torqued mine to a final torque of 95 ftlbs</TD></TR></TABLE>
Hey..first of all, he/she is in the wrong forum to begin with..so don't be hatin on me.

SOHC_MShue

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wtf?

I'm not sure if the studs are the same for the b series as they are for my D, but for mine i use a 12mm 12point socket.

R THIS

its a 13mm 12 point
and i torque mine to 82

Jaker

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and i torque mine to 82</TD></TR></TABLE>

Its actually a 1/2" 12 point.

ferio 95

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never fails that there is always one ******* who doesnt no the first thing about a topic to post up some stupid comment that doesnt help.
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Its actually a 1/2" 12 point.</TD></TR></TABLE>
And yes it is a 1/2" 12 point not a 13mm (13mm will slip)

babietuan323

fishy my a**

when we're done we'll post up pics of my head thank you very much for your unhelpful post NVTURBO

thanks for everyone else

Johnyquest

I used a 13mm when I did mine two days ago, but now that you mention it, it is an American company so it probably was supposed to be a 1/2" socket.

Oh well. Mine worked fine. What beautiful hardware ARP makes, I might add.

Matt

crispydee

Yeah i got a 13mm and its loose so have got a 1/2" on the way. On the box the torque specs are like 65lbs not 80-90 like people have quoted. why is this? Has it been found that some extra is better or is it because of the different lubes people use?

ferio 95

tourqing to 80-90 is unecessary and just ends up breaking sockets. 65 lbs is plenty

Adriano

My gsr motor I torqued them to 30, than 60, and final 90.

Adriano

Jaker

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Not only do you take a chance of breaking your sockets, but the extra torque has a pretty good chance of distorting the floating cylinders in the block, resulting in ring sealing problems, and more blown headgaskets.

mikesrex

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what kind of ******* reply is this? The guy asked a question. We didn't have a complete set of 12-point sockets at his house while removing the head so a quick answer of "1/2 inch 12 point" would have sufficed. We could've run to sears and got that one socket and been well on our way to removing the head.

this forum doesn't exist for ******** like you to post nonsense. It exists for everyone to help each other out. end yourself please kthx.

incredteg3

i use these studs on my built ls turbo and i torque to the stock specs. Hains manual seems like the most logical thing to do. not, oh well i think this should work.

PM-Performance

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Jaker

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You guys had better call ARPs tech department and tell them that. They're going around telling customers that its 1/2" .

PM-Performance

i used a 13mm and worked find for me . although them being american, it prob is 1/2

ferio 95

well if you break it down and convert 1/2" to mm its 12.7mm which can be rounded off to 13mm but the 13mm will slip under touqre so its best to use what ARP suggest so if anything goes wrong you can blame there asses

PM-Performance

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true, but it wont slips, ive done it hundreds of times