That's what I have in my notes here. But there's not enough room to get in there with the torque wrench that I have, unless I do something insane like mill off the front third of a short socket. Not well thought out for tool access!


I did. Reassembly was in the proper order on the cam holder bolts, quarter turns starting in the middle and working outward, torque double and triple checked with two different wrenches. Pretty sure it was done OK.

The thing that *might* have gotten effed up on the cam removal was my having to take the cam sprockets off. They have to be stopped from spinning in order to remove the sprocket bolt. I braced a box-end wrench under an arm on each sprocket, other end of the wrench in the motor mount cavity. In theory that might have bent a sprocket out of balance. But to the eye they are fine.

Certain older Honda motors had small holes in the sprocket arms designed to slip a key or a bit into, to hold the sprocket while removing its bolt. Noticed that when helping on a friend's car. But this helpful feature was left out on the B18C1 from what I can tell. Too bad.