Urgent help - THANKS

[JC]

rocker cover ( or wotever haynes call it these days  )

what torque are the bolts meant to be and are they tightened up in any order ?

mega thanks in advance 

[rombonie]

I tend to tighten them all so there just starting to nip the gasket then give them all another 1-2 turns starting from the middle outwards. You don't want them to tight. run it up until warm and see if its leaking, tighten if needed.

[dan23]

i do it top left, bottom right, bottom left, top right, and work my way inwards like that, but i alsway make sure they are not very tight, then once all of them are in, i tighten them a bit more in the same order.

[rombonie]

Work out or across but not in just good pratice

[Conker]

The valve cover of a 8v and 16v is 10nm of torque. No tightening order as such, it says to just do them "evenly".

My torque wrench doesn't go that low so i just gave mine a "strong nip".

[JC]

 cheers all - conker - spot on - VALVE COVER  in the haynes 

[Peel]

My torque wrench doesn't go that low so i just gave mine a "strong nip".

Same here. By "strong nip" do you mean "tight but not as tight as you can"?

[Conker]

Same here. By "strong nip" do you mean "tight but not as tight as you can"?

I mean turn until the nut starts to grip, then prob about another 45 degrees of turn or so.

[rombonie]

I tend to tighten them all so there just starting to nip the gasket then give them all another 1-2 turns starting from the middle outwards. You don't want them to tight. run it up until warm and see if its leaking, tighten if needed.