by jchesshyre on Wed 04 Nov 2015, 11:24 am
Just a little heads-up about this: I've just done my valve clearances and on reading the Honda manual (I've only used Haynes before) I notice that Haynes neglects to mention that the rear valve cover bolts should be tightened before the front ones. I didn't do this yesterday as I hadn't read the Honda manual that closely but will loosen them and re-tighten tonight starting with the rear ones. I've always had a smidgen of oil seepage around the cover gasket so it'll be interesting to see if this makes a difference. N.B. if the cover and the mating surface on the cylinder head are thoroughly cleaned with brake cleaner or similar then sealant should only be necessary in the semicircular cutouts, not all the way round, as specified by Honda.


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