- Sun Apr 25, 2010 4:47 pm
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Not to sure where to post this so here it goes. My kid has a 1994 Honda civic with the 1.5l 16v. We baught it with a blowen head gasket when i took it apart we found the reason pretty quick the head bolt above the oil presure guage had been cross threaded... Now gonna fix that today. Looking through the manual that i DL it only says to tourque to 52lbs in 2 stages. Seemed like a pretty low torque to me? Also on another forum they told me to use silicon on both sides of the gasket. Now iv never herd of this and looking at the gasket its already has silicon in it around some of the cooling pasages. Does this sound right. I had asked for more info 2 weeks agon on the other forum and no replys...
Since that engine has a relatively low compression ratio, 52ft/lbs is plenty. If that's what Honda recommends, there's reason behind that.
Don't add any extra sealants to the headgasket. It's designed to be installed dry.
If you don't mind me asking, which other forum were you asking on?
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