Well i realized just the other day that i never roatated my motor to retorque the rockers.
I put em in torqued em to 22in lbs and went on about my way.
Question is how bad or what could happen from this?

Is it that important to rotate the motor then retorque em?

 

your good, you put loctite on em!

 

your suppose to loctite them?

 

I don't think you torqued them down to 22 in lbs...maybe ft lbs

 

22 ft lbs and locktite! I rotated the motor and retorqued as well.

 

All the cam swaps I have done I have never had a problem with just tq'ing them to 22ft-lbs except for once with ap2002's truck, just put some loctite on em and tq'ed em down again and it was fine until he pulled the motor.

 

I was just wodering as i knew you were supposed to do so. Wasn't sure if i should worry about it or just move on.

 

Here's what I recommend:
1. Torque all 16 rockers to 22 foot pounds.
2. Rotate crank 1/2 revolution and retorque to 22 foot pounds.
3. Repeat step 2 two more times.

Blue Locktite is optional. The reason you want to rotate is to take the pressure off the spring/pushrods that are being compressed by the cam lobe so that you can properly torque (set up the clamping force) onthe rocker arm assembly. It's good that you thought about this. Likely, you've done no harm.

Steve

 

you're you're you're. its not that hard people!!!

 

yea, i just used a ratchet by feel without loctite 15k miles ago....but if i have the VC's off in the near future i'll use a little blue locktite and a trq wrench