can someone please give me the torque specs for the rocker arm studs and valve cover bolts for a 91 RS 305 please?

 

WAG rocker studs 35 ft/lbs valve cover bolts 100 in/lbs

 

Valve cover bolts = 89 in/lbs
Rocker arm studs = 45 ft/lbs
Thats per Haynes manual.

 

im getting some conflicting answers. i have also been told 20ft/lbs. does anyone know for sure?

 

why don't you look in you manual instead of trusting some dumbass on the internet?

 

because obviuosly i dont have one and i needed the answer, thanks for all your help ede. with as many posts as you have, you would think that you would know that the purpose of these boards is to help people, not to call them dumbasses.

 

buy a manual you need one or you need to leave your car alone. i have a pretty good handle on what the boards are for and who's a dumbass and who isn't.

 

So am I the dumbass or what?

 

Gotta love someone who just registered 2 months ago telling everyone why the board exists. Aaah...now we finally know!!

All this time I thought it was here to expand knowledge beyond what was in the manuals.

 

Spend $$ buying a manual, then spend time transcribing it so someone with an attitude doesn't have to buy one...how smart is that?

Helpful maybe, but I bought my books so I could drive the car more, not sit behind the keyboard retyping them.

 

look guys, i wasnt looking for any attitude just an answer to a quick question. if you dont want to help, then dont. its plain and simple. as far as me only registering "2months ago" so what. it doesnt take a genious to figure out the purpose of these boards. dont cut others down. i ask a question and im getting treated as if i asked how to install a wing on a honda or something. so no matter what the question, we should all come together and pull our varing levels of experience to come up with an answer for someone if we can, because thats what thirdgen owners do. so thank you to those who were able to help me out.

 

Mmmkay...

ede admittedly laid out a Wild Assed Guess, Cali replied with one out of the book, you replied you were confused because of the apparently varied answers (you should read more carefully), ede responded more or less 'why listen to a dumbass like me, get a book' (which ede calls himself ALL the time), Cali took it the wrong way (as his his wont on occasion) and Kev tried to point out that you are preaching about the boards as though you've been around since inception (which you haven't). You then get back on the pedestal and preach some more (to a member who has been here roughly around the current inception) ignorantly thinking it's going to make some sort of difference, and I just clarified the whole bloody thing for everyone.

So... boiled down, just take Cali's numbers and get off the soapbox. As I've mentioned before... Public Forum=Anyone can answer, you don't own the board, post, thread, etc. www.Thirdgen.org does, that's just the way it is.

 

Nah, i knew what Ede meant...
I was just looking to start a tussle since its been a while since Ive been in a good one on the boards

 

I'm pretty sure the advice you got was helpful..."go buy a manual" is very sound wisdom.

May not have been what you wanted to hear, but it was good advice.

 

i guess i got told then. apparently no one feels the same as i do about the site. thats cool. no i havent been around since day 1 of the boards, so sue me. i was 7 years old when the last thirdgen rolled off the assembly line. so what if im a little new school. thats fine with me; i just love these beautiful cars. i also dont have time to keep defending myself on the issue, due to the fact that im in the military and actually work for a living. so you guys were right and i was wrong, so lets just stop going back and forth on the whole thing, since i got the answer i was looking for, and the post no longer has anything to do with someone needing torque specs for rockers.

 

rockers don't have torque specs, rocker studs do, do you know which it is you're looking for?

 

You're acting like you were 7 when the last 4th gen rolled off...


I had the best 5 years of life in the Army. Yay. Now put the mop down and go spend $30 on a Haynes or Chilton manual.


If you're torquing stud-type rockers to a spec, there's more benefit for you in a manual than you may think.

 

Don't get me started again...

 

A '91 RS 305 would have press-in rocker studs, therefore there is no torque requirement for them. The rocker arms themselves are adjusted via self-locking hexnuts, if you are asking what is the required running torque for those nuts, I've never seen it specified. But, like ede said, you don't torque down the rocker arms.

 

 

Contained in a good manuel are the correct proceedures to lash valves (you may or may not find that in a haynes manuel [unless they revised it since 1999], but you will in the chilton), if you use the button and look up "valve lash" you should find a wealth of info.