Operation CHARM: Car repair manuals for everyone.
Manuals through 2025 now available!

Our trusted friends have launched a new website named LEMON, which has newer manuals. It also contains all the CHARM manuals.

LEMON is the spiritual successor to CHARM, I recommend you try it!

Link: lemon-manuals.la or lemon-manuals.org.ua

(Some people have issue connecting. LEMON is investigating. For now, use Firefox or change your DNS server)

Or, hide this message: temporarily or permanently

Torque Specifications

Upper Engine:











Cylinder Head Bolts Torque Sequence:







Tighten the cylinder head bolts in two steps. In the first step tighten all bolts, in sequence, to about 29 Nm (3.0 kgf.m, 22 ft. lbs.); in the final step, tighten in the same sequence to 85 Nm (8.7 kgf.m, 63 ft. lbs.)








Install the intake manifold and tighten the nuts in a crisscross pattern in 2 or 3 steps, beginning with the inner nuts.








Install the exhaust manifold and tighten the new self-locking nuts in a crisscross pattern in 2 or 3 steps, beginning with the inner nuts.