Originally Posted by
johnbe
I have both the service manual and the Chilton manual (Chilton manual wasn't worth the money). Both manuals give no particular order for the bolts to be removed on both the valve covers and the breathers. What order would you suggest on removing and reinstalling?
-John
We are not talking of much torque here, so going round and incrementally tightening them would be fine, but incrementally tightening them from the center out would be best I guess. Do not tighten the breather covers to the same torque as the valve covers. They are different size screws so different values apply. OEM breather screws are aluminum so they are or were tightened using much less torque than steel screws and used only once ideally.
The torque value of the breather screws is around here somewhere.