Replaced the valve cover gasgets 2 days ago, popd the hood today and the 12m bolt was out! Oil EVERYWHERE! cant seem to find any online (even ebay didnt have em'!)

I live in Anna Texas, Anybody got some theyd sell/know of a store online that sells em?
My only other option is using Allthread bolts..

 

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bump..

 

Stop bumping the damn thread. You just posted.

 

my bad bruh. thought you had to bump or the topic would drop down into the 2nm - 3rd page! New to Honda Tech, sry

 

Hard to find some stuff after market. Just get them from Honda, they're not too expensive.


>>> http://www.hondaautomotiveparts.com/...DER+HEAD+COVER <<<


EDIT: Actually they are expensive lol

EDIT 2: I'm out of this thread lol

 

If someone comes along and has an answer they will respond to your thread. Have you tried contacting a local Honda dealership? Auto parts store?

 

Lol, thats what i was afraid of! would Allthread bolts work ok? im a little bit iffy about em'..

 

Like Mcvtec said, there pricy! and my Uncle works up at Autozone and he said they dont carry them :/

 

For piece of mind I wouldn't call that pricey.

 

are u talking about the 10mm bolts for the valve cover im sure i have some spare ones if ur looking for some. they are not 12mm though

 

Are you just trolling my board??

Sweet! and there are 4 10mm bolts and one 12mm bolt on a Dseries Valve cover, but what would you be wanting for them?

 

Didnt see that link lol, but the bolt im needing is one it isnt showing! its right above the hols for the plug wires.. right dead center of the cover!

 

Did you torque the bolts? Were the threads clean when you reinstalled them?

 

My uncle tightend the 12mm bold even more after i did (i thought it was to tight but w/e lol) but only one of the 10mm bolts looked iffy, but its the one that freakn stayed in!! lol

 

Did you use a torque wrench or just guess?

Valve cover bolts are kind of important to actually torque correctly. Too loose and you'll lose oil, too tight and you'll lose threads.

 

Valve cover bolt don't just fly/fall over. There's a possible chance that it was over tighten resulting in broken bolt.

 

Two guys with a wrench and a lil knowhow about cars.. we guessed! lol and ohhhh yes! im loosing a quart every few miles!! (found out while i was in town, then had to put a quart in just to make it home :/)

 

guess ill go see if it broke! (didnt think of that..) Damn.. Brb guys

 

12mm where? u sure your not talking about the rockers assembly...

 

Ill have to w8 till tme so i can take off the valve cover to see if its broke..

And yea rsk, its the bolt above the 4 sparkplug holes (in the center of em')
ists shooting oil all over the hood/coresupport :/

 

ur posts make my head hurt use a torque wrench next time stop guessing the bolts are 10mm not 12 idk where youre getting this 12 mm nonsense from i have pulled 4 d series motors, when i go to the junk yard i never have to use anything other than 12 only time i had to use a 12 on this car is when i was taking pedals off or some bigger hardware maybe thats why they are gone because u used the wrong ones

 

isnt that #16 in the picture?

buck up and pay the 5 bucks.

Its going to cost 4x that to tap the broken nut out *if* your lucky enough to get it out (and if you did indeed break it)

and...get this

 

That's what I'm saying.

 

Sounds like it was the entirely wrong bolt to start with, there are no 12mm headed bolts on the valve cover at all. Two long 10mm headed bolts in the back and three short 10mm headed bolts in the front. All self contained with rubber gaskets and washers.

Or on notec heads pre-Y7 you've got four 10mm nuts. On B series you've also got 10mm nuts.

I've never seen anything 12mm on a valve cover on any Honda four cylinder in my life.