slowrider87
Well-Known Member
Best thing to do is use a adjustable wrench and rock it to slowly loosen the bolts
time to be an *** again...
some shop owners don't allow techs to use an adjustable wrench. adjustable wrenches suck. they are a last resort wrench for odd size bolts, or good for holding nuts still when you don't have to of the same size wrench while you use a REAL open/box end wrench on the other end to turn the bolt. they can and regularly do loosen themselves each time you move/jiggle/turn it and round down bolt heads, making them equally as useless as breaking them. i have an adjustable wrench that has a handle like vise-grips to lock the adjustable head in place, and i still have yet to us it.
the vc bolts are a common 10mm socket/wrench. if you don't own one of those then you have no business touching a honda or most any other car. I've taken off many VC's. just don't go all incredible hulk, use the proper wrenches. torque them to spec (9.8 Nm, 1.0 kgf.m, 7.2 ft. lbs.)using a real torque wrench, or us common sense and ighten then until they feel SNUG.
heres a true "helpful tip"...well i just put out a helpful tip for those who wish to paint their VC
"Tighten the bolts in two or three steps. In the final step, tighten all bolts, in sequence, to 9.8 Nm (1.0 kgf.m, 7.2 ft. lbs.)"
Alldata ftw. Do some research kid. now kindly stfu and stop reviving old threads with poor information.
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