Hows it going fellas, I got a question has any one ever got arp camshaft bolts. Not the ones that hold the cam gear but the cam shaft holder plate bolts. Ive replaced mine a thousand times when i couldve just got them from arp and not worried about replacing them again. I called up arp not to long ago and they have all the bolts except the 4 used by the valve cover and it was around 100 bucks for all of them. So im wondering if anyone has bought them and if anyone wants them because after i get them and make sure they fit right and what not i will post the part numbers so you dont have to sit on the phone all day telling them the sizes you need.

 

why are you replacing those bolts so often?

 

Well the first 2 times was trying to get the head seated cuz i kept getting a trickle of oil. Then i put in ctr pistons replaced bearing and all that stuff. Then my oil pump siezed up the day i ordered the new one and basically trashed my bottom end. So once again i took it apart and put together a type-r motor which is currently in there and runing strong. So now im picking up another head from a friend of mine that has full skunk2 internals to send of the get PnPed. So i will be replacing the head once again in a month or 2 so im just going to get all arp bolts just incase i have to take the head offf again after that.

So thats about 4 times ive replaced those bolts and i know from experience you cant reuse them ive snapped them trying that so i get new ones everytime but i jus found out a year ago as long as you keep your reciept from honda they will replace the bolts for free as long as its been with in a year.

 

I can't tell if your talking about head bolts or cam cap bolts. I reused mine with 250K miles on the engine. I now have 294K miles with no problems, maybe I am just lucky.

 

hahahaha b-series has to pull the cams to get to the head bolts!

 

i have re-used those bolts before. i never had any issues with them. are you torquing them correctly?

if you want you can use the ARP hardware.....as long as they are the correct part number for the correct application they will work perfectly fine.


a little trick i use when removing the cams. i know on the b-series VTEC engine you are supposed to remove the cam gears first then take the cams out. well thats only because the inner timing belt cover loops around the end of the camshafts. i modified my inner timing belt cover. i cut the loop out and sand/grind the lip that sticks out toward the cam gears smooth. this way the cams with the gears attached come out easily. its been running like that for almost 2 years now and there are no issues with it.

good luck.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by non-VTEC &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i have re-used those bolts before. i never had any issues with them. are you torquing them correctly?

if you want you can use the ARP hardware.....as long as they are the correct part number for the correct application they will work perfectly fine.


a little trick i use when removing the cams. i know on the b-series VTEC engine you are supposed to remove the cam gears first then take the cams out. well thats only because the inner timing belt cover loops around the end of the camshafts. i modified my inner timing belt cover. i cut the loop out and sand/grind the lip that sticks out toward the cam gears smooth. this way the cams with the gears attached come out easily. its been running like that for almost 2 years now and there are no issues with it.

good luck.
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Yea i did the same thing im not talking about the bolts that hold the cam gears to the camshaft thou im talking about the cam cap bolts.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sik96teg &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

Yea i did the same thing im not talking about the bolts that hold the cam gears to the camshaft thou im talking about the cam cap bolts.</TD></TR></TABLE>

oh wow sorry i misunderstood your original post......

maybe your over torquing those bolts? they should not ever snap when tightening.....

either way if ARP makes the bolt you are looking for then go for it...

 

i torque them the proper way every time i even had someone else do it for me and they snapped even a different torque wrench to make sure it wasnt that. The very first time my buddy was actually the one torquing them down snapped like 4 of them before telling me that was fun backin out 4 bolts not trying to get metal shavings in the head