Valve Cover Gasket Torque Settings

[cipher93]

Does anyone have the torque settings for a 4AFE valve cover? My Haynes book is missing it for some reason. Also, do the valve cover gaskets normally come with the spark plug tube seals? Anything else they should come with I'll need?

Btw, anyone have any ideas on how to get oil grime off the valve cover itself while I have it off?

[ganda1f]

Not sure if there are any specs for the valve cover. I always tightened the valve cover by feel. In equal steps, diagonally opposite nuts. At some point it gets a bit more difficult to tighten each nut, which is where I leave them be. The most important part is to have clean mating surfaces.
And do get rid off any oil floating in the valve cover before reinstalling it. I forgot that one time, and the oil dripped all over the cleaned head surface when I turned the cover over to re-install it. Had to redo the cleaning. Quite annoying

[topnotch]

to get the oil grime of the valve cover i used purple blaster..cleaned my valve cover like brand new.

[Greasewrench]

52 inch-lbs, thats straight from the chiltons manual and as stated above tighten them down diagonally. i used black magic engine shine to degrease my cover, it works great

[cipher93]

Thanks

EDIT: While I'm thinking about it, these things don't get stuck do they? I would hate for that as there does not appear to be anywhere to put a pry in to pull it off it is.