I know I know, buy a helms. This is my sisters car and shes selling it so... At any rate I know the removal sequence for the bolts and the tighting sequence, I just dont know what to trq em too and how much, I know that you have re trq em once it warms up.... any help would be rad....

Blaze

 

75 ft lbs should do it? (guess?)

maybe ask in the civic forum?

waht was the cause of the HG problem? (what did it look like once you took hte head off?)

t..

 

Which Honda head gasket are you using? The fiber one (crap) and the metal one have different specs.

 

Its the metal HG. All but one plug had a green tint to it when we took it out. Honnestly my sister would have driven it into the ground if I hadnt noticed that it was running so hot, shes like oh its been there for a while now, I dont know when it started to get like that ( ) It wasnt blowing any smoke so we had to have a mech. use some special chemical to test if there was co2 in the coolant, and there was. I read somewhere yesterday when I was searching that when you had a blown HG, it would boil over all your coolant into the overflow and then you would overheat cause its all in the overflow. This happend a lot after I found out she was overheating. . . At any rate Im gonna need the Trq. specs today cause were gonna get a head on there one way or another (old one might be warrped, getting it checked).

Blaze

 

Bump cause this is all Im waiting on.....

Blaze

 

I was gonna answer sooner, but here it is...

Step 1 - 22 lb.ft
Step 2 - 53 lb.ft