crashing_sux
Blow Me?
I finally dug into replacing my plugs and wires today. While I had the fender wells out I checked all of my header bolts (because I have a bad leak) and noticed that every one of them was loose, I removed them all by hand 
That explains the leak. Three of the bolts are just regular arp bolts, but three of them are some sort of locking bolts, they have a washer that goes over the head and sits against the pipe to keep them from spinning once tightened, and an E-clip (I think that's what it's called) that sits on top of the washer keeping it from falling off. It's also has a socket head on it (and a hex head for the washer), I wonder how tight I can get these with an allen wrench. Doesn't seem like very tight at all. Does anyone know what I should torque them too, or better yet how in the hell I would torque them?
It's not like I could get a torque wrench in there, way, way too tight.
While I'm replacing the header gasket, is there any extra goop I need to put on it or prep work to do? I noticed there is no gasket between the header (collector?) and the pipe that heads over to the turbo, and that leaks too. Do I just tighten that band down even tighter? Seemed plenty tight originally.
I'll be searching old threads as well for info on the header gasket but the torque for the locking header bolts seemed like a pretty obscure thing so I decided to just ask away on that one.
That explains the leak. Three of the bolts are just regular arp bolts, but three of them are some sort of locking bolts, they have a washer that goes over the head and sits against the pipe to keep them from spinning once tightened, and an E-clip (I think that's what it's called) that sits on top of the washer keeping it from falling off. It's also has a socket head on it (and a hex head for the washer), I wonder how tight I can get these with an allen wrench. Doesn't seem like very tight at all. Does anyone know what I should torque them too, or better yet how in the hell I would torque them?
It's not like I could get a torque wrench in there, way, way too tight.
While I'm replacing the header gasket, is there any extra goop I need to put on it or prep work to do? I noticed there is no gasket between the header (collector?) and the pipe that heads over to the turbo, and that leaks too. Do I just tighten that band down even tighter? Seemed plenty tight originally.
I'll be searching old threads as well for info on the header gasket but the torque for the locking header bolts seemed like a pretty obscure thing so I decided to just ask away on that one.