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My latest additions, coastal offroad kits. Any suggestions on what to go with the air intake? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My latest additions, coastal offroad kits. Any suggestions on what to go with the air intake? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A user on the NICO Club forum actually found the service manual for these valve covers, and it turns out, I was right when I said it was a good idea to use the Maxima torque spec in two steps technique, but I was wrong about the torque pattern. Here's the official torque pattern: That's right, they hid it in the timing chain portion of the service manual! fskcin Nissan. Even more in my defense than just the weird placement, there's a good chance there's a typo right there, since all other versions of these instructions tell you to torque it to 26in/ibs, and this tells you to torque it to 78in/ibs twice in a row. There's a chance it's just an extremely poorly written way of telling you to do the right one and then the left one, but I feel like this time Occam's razor says a typo is more likely. Here's the lesson: Don't reuse valve cover bolts on the aluminum valve covers! The used ones have just enough corrosion on them to cause a bit of extra friction, which makes them reach the torque spec early compared to the new ones. I gave one side new bolts, reused the bolts from the donor Pathfinder for the aluminum valve covers on the other side, and guess what? The side with the new bolts is sealing great, and the side with the reused bolts isn't. This is especially apt, since the side that got the new bolts was actually the side that wasn't sitting entirely flat when I first installed it, so if all things were even, that'd be the side you'd expect to leak. The scientific method at work! See? I'm not just a lunatic doing everything wrong on a valve cover job, I'm offering valuable information to future generations of R50 owners