M44 Tear Down--how tight should those cylinder head bolts feel?

[jwinlaporte]

Update! Hoping to start engine today!
Cylinder head rebuilt new springs and seals.
New over sized head gasket. Still waiting on exhauset studs/nuts, but everything else is put back together. Will bleed coolant system with engine off at first.

The Haynes manual says that initial start up requires engine to be revved at 3500 rpm for 20 seconds or so until the timing chain adjuster gets pumped full of oil. Is that what the Bentley manual says too? Kinda scary knowing it's gonna sound like crap first time it's started.

Everything new is stock/or OEM equal (so they say):

Control arms and bushings
stabilizer links and brackets
struts
water pump
t-stat and housing
cylinder head rebuilt
3 new idler/tensioner pulleys
belts
brakes were missing anti rattle clips (dude before me was hacker, methinks)
rear shocks/mounts
head gasket and all o rings and gaskets to put it back together

I'm totally upside-down with this little TI now.
I hope I like driving as much as I like looking at it. . .

[bazar01]

Good luck on your rebuild.

This little car is fun to drive. I wish I was driving it coz my daughter loved it so much she traded with me her 2001 Civic EX 5sp for the older 96 Ti.

[small_m]

do not run the engine at 3500rpm after you first fire it! I woiuld do the following.
-Remove the tennsioner and put it in a bowl of oil. push the plunger so that it primes the tensioner. then install
-Remove plug wies from the coil and crank till the oil pressure light turns off.
when it does your good to go.

[jwinlaporte]

IT'S ALIVE!
Boy is that a moment of truth or what?
Still a few problems, but it's running, yahoo! I'll post more later to see if anybody has advice on tracking down a rough idle. I suspect that one of the many wiring harnasses is hooked up wrong or something. There's no oil light coming on when the key is turned, so I must have missed something under there. . .

[jwinlaporte]

Took it out for a shakedown. Oh my. Pure joy to drive, especially knowing that I made it run.
New problem!!! Break/clutch res is running out of fluid after a short drive. Clutch began to make noise while pushing pedal. I can fill it and drive it, but not for very long at a time. There is noise coming from slave cylinder when pushing clutch pedal and the res gets low real fast. The thing is, there's no visible fluid leaks anywhere? Will slave cyl leak into the tranny? Hmm, where is the fluid going?

[jwinlaporte]

Took it out for a shakedown. Oh my. Pure joy to drive, especially knowing that I made it run.
New problem!!! Break/clutch res is running out of fluid after a short drive. Clutch began to make noise while pushing pedal. I can fill it and drive it, but not for very long at a time. There is noise coming from slave cylinder when pushing clutch pedal and the res gets low real fast. The thing is, there's no visible fluid leaks anywhere? Will slave cyl leak into the tranny? Hmm, where is the fluid going?

[tiFreak]

slave cylinder will leak into the bellhousing

[jwinlaporte]

Yes, that's exactly it. Now my engine is all dressed with no place to go. Still, the thing is, I still don't see where the fluid was leaking to. . .and now I'm looking for a slave cylinder, hoping to have one in hand tomorrow--but not feeling real confident.

Also, there was a LOT of dust inside bell housing. Does this mean clutch is almost done?