Rocker help

[vwkj87]

I'm servicing my 2L type 4 that I have barely run since I bought the car. Went to adjust the tappets and the two nuts that hold the no. 2 rocker on weren't there! Weird thing is that I found THREE nuts in the head and no washers. Is this a disaster?

[borninabus]

hmmm. assume you are talking about the M7 nuts that get torqued to 11ft/lbs. the ones that hold the rocker shaft on. now when you say you found three "in the head", you mean in the rocker box, right? underneath the valve cover? are the three nuts the same? for sure? they can be easily mistaken for M6 nuts. maybe somebody lost one at one point?

regardless, no; not disaster. put the rocker assembly back on with proper M7 lock washers, use a torque wrench and do an oil change. report back 🙂
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[Wildthings]

This is a torque critical application where a torque wrench should always be used. It can be hard to find a torque wrench that reads accurately in this range though.

[vwkj87]

[tootype2crazy]

for the torque wrench:

https://www.amazon.com/TEKTON-24320-4-Inch-Torque-...dpSrc=srch

For an inch pound torque wrench the spec on that nut is 120 inch pounds.

Might also take your oil sump plate and screen off and see if the washers made their way down there.

If not here is a source for the washer:

https://www.belmetric.com/zinc-form-a-small-od-c-4_36_1106/ww7apln-wave-washer-plain-p-9948.html
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