techmage916

hello, I'm just trying to figure out the name of a part. its a weird spine-looking thingy that goes all the way across the top of the cam and valve assembly in the head. it's the piece that has the bolt-holes for the valve cover.

one of the valve cover bolt holes has broken off and i need to order a new part so that i will stop pissing oil all over the engine compartment (dont worry, it broke off while we were reassembling the engine... we recovered the pieces before they got into the engine.)

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kaiba

Engine code?

thenext

Cam cradle?

94eg!

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It depends on what year/make/model/trim you have. All the engines are different. You can look up parts yourself on Hondapartsnow.com by filling out the a fore mentioned information. Then select engine, then select cylinder head. This will show you all the parts and part numbers.

BTW: If it's a cam-cap, that is bad news. You cannot buy those separate from the head (because they are line-bored for the cam together as an assembly).

techmage916

sorry, d16z6 in a ej1

it appears to be holder, lost motion. thanks for the tip on that site. solved my 1-year long mystery on this part that is causing a nasty amount of oil to be pissed around in the engine compartment.

Texas4door

Heh, I had this same thing happen to my head before I finally drilled it out and tapped in a helicoil.
My solution was to use some silicone gasket and basically glue that valve cover bolt over the hole to keep the oil from getting everywhere.
Worked for like two years before I replaced the head due to other problems
Good luck!
^^

techmage916

yeah, we had a heli coil in there. the whole thing blew apart when i went to reassemble after we extracted a spark plug that fell apart in there. have it silioconed on in that corner. i just dont like anything halfassed on my car.