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I adjusted my valves wrong and now they tap loud is it ok to drive it to school and then to my friends to get it fixed? see my other post please I need help
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help

 

Get it fixed before you drive it anywhere... those broken bolts make me shudder BTW you cannot adjust the valves right after you drive it, in case you didn't know..

 

The car was cool when we did the adjust! but I need to know how im going to get the other part of the boltout because its down in the block and I dont know If I can get to it because its the journal hole!

 

bleh sounds like you fuct yo **** up replace those bolts asap. when pulling timing **** apart have to aline pully dot UP and cam gear UP and make sire the 2 horazontal lines are even w/ valve cover. this will ensure tdc. so you dropped a bolt in your motor? if your going to drive anywhere do not rev it at all. if your valves are smashing into pistons your going to have a ton of damage, new pistons and valves will most likely be needed. if you have to drive it drive it slow like a grandma

 

OK I got my mom to drive me to school now I just to need to get my car to my friends house and pray to god I can get the bolts out to fix this! just to make sure with you guys there are two white dots on my game gear teeth and then there are two up arrows that say up witch do I use to make sure im TDC this could make a huge diffrence!

 

If its dropped in the holes, hopefully the pieces will make it down to the oil pan and not get stuck in between. I would suggest taking off the oil pan if you get a chance when you are done to look for them.

 

NO theres not a bolt that I droped down in the motor I just broke off 2 bolts that scrrew into the block I have one peice and the other peice is still in the block! I just need to make it to my friends house hopefully they will hold

 

oh bleh i thought you had **** in your block =P up does UP and there:
should look like this:

UP
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those lines are horizontal w/ valve cover, UP goes up

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[Modified by TorteX, 7:08 PM 5/6/2002]

 

oh man...you're going to have to use an extractor and those NEVER work right...good luck.

 

I would recomend doing it yourself. If your friend doesn't even know how to line up TDC I wouldn't trust him. When adjusting your valves the only bolts you need to remove completely are the ones that hold on the valve cover gasket.


-Dustin

 

damn... just adjusted my valves yesterday and accidentally broke off one of the valve cover bolts on my SOHC. What a way to end a perfectly good day. Now I gotta go down and pay through my nose to get a new one from the honda dealer, then I gotta drill out the old bolt and find a metric tap/die set so I can re-thread the damn hole. All the while, making sure I get no metal shavings in my valves. UGH.

 

i can get it for 2.05 at my dealer cause i jsut got one. if ya need it give me a shout

 

when drilling out or whatever to keep metal shavings out stab a oil soaked rag over the stud. It will perfectly suround the hole and the oil will prevent the metal shavings from falling onto surrounding parts. can use a heavier rease too.

-Dustin

 

Oh man! Sorry to say this, but man you are having some problems aren't you. I think you need to put down the wrench and decide wether or not you really should be doing your own engine work.

Anyways, I hope ya get things worked out for ya. Good luck.

 

I didnt do this it was my friend who thought he knew what he was doing.....ahhhhh and now I have to take it to a shop to get fixed but hell im learing alot! but learning it the hard way

 

Well, when it comes to cars, the only way to learn the best is the hard way. heh.