How tight are the shiny bolts on the top of a 22RE engine supposed to be?



The red-circled ones I can spin with my fingers, the yellow ones I cannot. Is this normal? How tight should they be?

 

It has been a long time since I had a 22RE, but I believe they are supposed to be something like 19 ft/lbs.

 

How do I figure out how tight it is? Special tool that tells you the ft lbs?

 

Torque Wrench. Everybody should have one of these if you plan on doing a decent amount of work to your vehicle. If you look in any repair manual every bolt will have a different torque. If you pay attention to these and use a torque wrench you should reduce bolts breaking, warping, and stripping. You can probably pic one up for $20 bucks.

 

Not sure about 22RE's, but other valve cover's i've worked on (4 cyl) were more like 10 ft/lbs or even less... they strip easy.

 

What do the bolts hold down? What ill effects could happen if they fell out or are loose?

I'll check out that torque wrench.

Gracias.

 

It looks like those are the valve cover bolts. If they are not tight you will leak oil and maybe loose a little vacuum. It's no big deal though, tighten them to the specs and you should be good if it leaks put a little p-tex on the rubber seal, especially near the end half-moon gromets. You may be right My99 it could be 10ft/lbs, its been a while.

 

Cool, thanks guys. I had noticed it leaking a little more oil the past week or so. Good to know My trucks not dying.

So I got a torque wrench, anybody know how many ft lbs they're supposed to be? How/ where to find out?

 

my fsm for my 92 says 52 in-lbf for the 22re

 

Users of this information, note INCH/lb not foot/lb on that measurement.

 

Thanks guys, I'm on it.

Y'all kick ass.

 

you dont want them too tight---or to fall out, then oil could be spewing out the valve cover.

T

 

I just use a 12mm nut driver. Hard to overtorque it that way.

 

my fsm for my 92 says 52 in-lbf for the 22re

my chilton states that too. anyone know what the conversion rate is for in. lbs to ft. lbs. or is there even one?

 

divide in-lbs by 12.

12 in-lbs = 1 ft-lbs, exactly the same as 12 in = 1 ft.

So 52 in-lbs would be 4-1/3 ft-lbs.

 

good deal! its 830 and i've already learned something!

 

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