bolts are 4 or 5 dollars. now, what made you think that it would be alright to start it with bolts missing?

 

do u kno were i can get them bolts?

 

Acura dealer, as with most other engine bolts

 

I had to pull 2 broken cam cap bolts out of my B16 head cause of a idiot previous owner put them together way over spec... Get some one that knows what they are doing with a Easy out...

 

Autozone/Advance/Napa maybe...Ace Hardware........Lowes even sells metric...probably grade 5....you might replace them with studs
and nuts from autoparts store, clean everything, and locktite them in.......

 

if you need thos bolts i got boxes of them,i only use stainlessSteel bolts now from lowes : o ) but if you need some bolts let me know you can have as many as you need

 

Metric bolts are graded differently from SAE
Best to stay with 10.9, which is the stronger tempered steel. 12.9 is the strongest. Stainless is A2 or sometimes 18-8 and is the weakest, even weaker than the bottom line 8.8 carbon steel metric bolts.

Kind of drifted into bolt tech here, but just get an easy out or the extractors Sears sells, take care of your broken bolts and take one (an unbroken one) to the hardware store and get what you need. Those should be 8mm with a 1.25 pitch thread.
Get a torque wrench that works and put it all back together, providing the cam saddle cleans up OK.

 

.^That's. Odd my bolts I buy all say 10.8 that's not good?

 

I've heard from machinists that 10.8 means it was made in Taiwan or China. Don't know for sure, but I do notice the U.S. bolt companies online and the better hardware stores sell 10.9
Since fasteners hold things together that people trust their lives to, there is a lot of control and controversy over the cheap Chinese fasteners floating around and how to avoid them.

Don't know the history, but I notice 8.8 is pretty standard everywhere you go, but when you get up into the quality, more critical bolts, you find the out of sequence 10.9 and 12.9. It figures that it is a way of letting people know it's the good stuff. I can't imagine why else there would be a grade system of just .10 difference created.

At any rate, I've never heard of stainless hardware rated 10.8 or 10.9. That's a rating for carbon/alloy steel bolts. A2, A4 and the like is how stainless is rated. Sometimes 18-8. Stainless is not that strong, just corrosion resistent. It's generally used as marine hardware.

Perhaps someone out there can provide more.

 

civicized, you are pretty much spot on with your knowledge of bolts and such, maybe too knowledgeable, lol. to the maker of this thread, go to honda or acura and get your bolts you need. for one, they will be right in length and two, they will be strong enough. enough said.