Rocker Head cover question

Hi all, I am new to this forum but have been reading through the other posts. Ok a bit about me, I am lucky enough to have two cars, my normal driving car is a Mazda Xedos 6 (work Car). But MY BABY is a 1993 Honda CRX Vti (Del Sol) which I am in the middle of modding, so far she has a full Erebuni Combat body kit, Rage back box, HKS Drop-in air filter, and some very nice 17” BSA alloys.

Now due to time and working away I have had to keep her in a lock up and am only now coming back to carry on the work . But I have found a problem the black paint on the Rocker-Head (I think it is the rocker head ) it’s the bit where you pure the oil in and has DOHC and the Honda logo in chrome, has started to flake, now I would like to change it but don’t have £250-£300 for a new one (due to marriage plans this year) so I would like to take the old one off and have it re-painted.

Now here is the question, I remember (I think) that you have to have to have a cretin torque for each of the nuts on the cover, and that they need to be tightened in the right order so does any one now what it is for the B16A2 and should I know anything before I get started .

Thanks you guys for any help.

LauBen

I believe you are referrering to the valve cover. As far as I know, there's no certain order that you need to tighten the valve cover nuts. My service manual doesn't state what to torque the valve cover nuts though. It says to torque the ignition wire cover nuts to 7 lb/ft (1 kg/m), so I would imagine it would be about the same for the valve cover nuts.

I believe you're thinking of the cylinder head which has to have the nuts torqued in a certain order.

Here is what I am talking about. Is this the Rocker Head or the vaule cover?

And if it's the valve cover does it need to be tighten in any order, and to a set level of torque?

I have posted a photo of the part I am talking about, in the gallery section.

Thanks for the help

The link to the picture is

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12169

That's the vavle cover. You can buy one from a Type-R (Red) for $170 (94 pounds) from AJR Online (www.aj-racing.com) - and that might not even be the best price out there.

The cover keeps the oil from spraying everywhere. Just make sure its on tight - without snapping the heads off the bolts. There is no particular bolting pattern. If you want to ensure a tight even fit just start at the upper-left then go to the bottom-right, then bottom left, then upper-right, then move inwards, always going diagoanally when you can. Don't tighten the bolts the first time around -- go back and tighten them on a second or even third pass.

Thanks for the Info.... I will take a look at the site, once again thanks for the info.