What size bolt?

[Banshee]

There are too bolts that connect the VVt oil pipe to the vvt unit at the front of the cam cover. Do you guys know what size and length bolt that is? I just snapped of the head, and will have to drill it out and replace it.

Thx.

[Tom @ Fast Forward]

Might want to pull the other one too. Might let you grab some shank sticking up to unscrew the broken one if it is just the head that snapped.

No size on the screws/bolts in the manual but it does call for 68.6 - 98.3 in-lb torque.

[Kyp J]

Tom

Free idea for a new product to engineer. A device with a dial indicator and an appropriate size hand wrench like a short 3/8th socket handle to show how much torque in the persons grip on the wrench. Kind of like a training tool with a list of appropriate torque levels for some of the common size bolts.

It would be a lot less problem for people without 30 or 40 years experience with hand tools.

[Tom @ Fast Forward]

Something like this from NAPA?

http://www.fastforwardsuperchargers.com/Install/TorqueWrench.jpg

[socal pat]

:D :lol: :lol: :lol: :D

[Kyp J]

If you put marks on it to hold as if it was an 8 inch socket wrench and get one calibrated in in. lbs. it might work.

If everybody used the right torque wrench, the screws wouldn't get broke. I never used a torque wrench for little stuff because they cost too much (in. lbs.).

Some of the old guys with 14 inch wrists that worked on the cash registers that I followed when I first started working, could torque a screw with a screw driver so tight I had to use a crescent wrench on my screw driver to get it out. A little too much.