103 Valve cover torque specs..?

[gidpor]

It is time to change the valve cover gasket but I cannot for the life of me, find these torque values on my CD. As a matter of fact, it seems like the Valve Cover is never really reffered to on it's own merrit anywhere on the CD.
I remember someone mentioning 8nm/10nm. Does that seem right ?
TIA

[danwatt]

I believe it is 8.5nm

[gidpor]

thank you much. Yours must be the fastest reply I ever got on the board...
Not a minute even since I posted the question !

[Duke2.6]

Most 10 mm hex head bolts have a 6 mm nominal shank diamter. Proper torque would be about 60 in-lb.

Duke

[1991300SEL]

Duke,

Would 60 in-lbs. translate into 5 ft-lbs 60/12=5 ??

Thanks.

[Duke2.6]

Yes, but 5 lb-ft is tough to gage with a conventional lb-ft torque wrench, either beam or click type, that reads to 150 lb-ft. They aren't accurate enough at the low end of the scale to be reliable below about 15 lb-ft.

For small torque specs one should have about a 300 lb-in torque wrench. I have an old beam type with this scale.

For setting up axle and steering gear bearing preloads, a 25 lb-in torque wrench is necessary.

Duke