Well I just got a 1992 prelude 2.3 for $1000, the timing belt broke and bent 6 valves. I rebuild the head and put everything back onto the car, when I went to torque down the cams on my intake side the long bolt snapped off inside the head. I’m not sure what I should do? do you think a machine shop can get it out or do you think i should scrap the head. It is so deep you can barley get a drill down in there.

thanks,
mike

 

best way to find out would be to bring it to a local machine shop and ask if they can drill it out for you.

 

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Even if it can't be drilled out, then you can have the hole redrilled (which would destroy the broken bolt) and have it retapped.

By the way, welcome to Honda-Tech.

 

i did the same thing, if its that deep and theres enough threads to put a shorter bold in then do that. I have been running my car with a broken on since Nov haven't gotten around to it yet

 

i dont know if i would do that... it would still need to go in pretty deep... i would rather just pay the machine shop how ever much it costs and do it right for good, then to run into major problems later on.

 

I just got the head off and im going to take it to a machine shop tomorrow. If it is really bad he can probably tap a size bigger and put in a helicol so I can still run the stock bolt size. Does anyone know the exact torque spec for those cam bolt caps.

Thanks,
mike