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Hey guys, I'm not sure where to post these so I figured this would be a decent place. I've been re-doing my head gasket and taped these to my garage wall so that I'd know where all the nuts and bolt went.

I've tried to include bolt and nut sizes as well as quantities. Please let me know if there are any other schematics/diagrams that you guys might need for stock engines. I'll try to put it all together.

By the way... Don't forget those dowel pins and woodruff key! ( :

Also, my car is the 2003 Civic with the 1.7L. I think it's a D17.

 
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Not to rain on your parade (though, those can be incredibly useful), you can find basically any diagram you need (albeit, unlabeled like you have) on hondaautomotiveparts.com (or any other similar webiste. The aspect ratio kinda irks me, but I'm a bit OCD.. lol

Again, not bashing your contribution, just providing information. I will, however, add a link to your post in my headgasket tips/tricks link in my signature, so kudos to you there. Something that would be incredibly useful, though, would be a list of all the torque specs you need for the job (along with stepwise torque specs like for the head bolts). If you feel like conjuring that up, that'd be amazing.

Oh, and just a final tidbit of information, since you have an 03 LX (based on your post history), your engine is a D17A1 (1.7L non-VTEC)

 
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Thanks for the reply, xRiCeBoYx. Yeah, I got the schematics from Majestic Honda. I guess the main reason that I posted them is for guys like me that can't remember what they ate for breakfast, let alone what bolts went where the day before. ( : It was just way easier for me to look at the sheets taped to the wall instead of getting online to find stuff. I'll add a couple more soon.

And what a great thread for HG repair you've got! I wish I had found that before.

I've been wanting to do a torque spec list lately. You've given me some inspiration to actually get on that.

 
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My ex always wondered how in the world I could take apart an entire car, leave it sit for a week, and get it all back together without missing a single bolt.............yet I could NOT remember to take out the garbage on trash day before I left to go to work.

 
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Ezone, I know I'm a Honda nerd when I started reading your post like your car ('EX' Honda) couldnt understand how you could do that. :-) Thanks for posting, though. I guess YOU don't need these schematics, huh?! Hahaha...

 
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I don't usually need help like that on the cars I'm super familiar with.

I DID need that sort of help on the 13 Challenger that drank a flooded underpass and bent a rod. That sat around long enough for me to forget a lot of stuff, it took longer than it should have to get it all back together.


^It shattered the piston too.



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I really try to follow a pattern when I take apart large jobs: I lay items out in order of disassembly, in a row, keep stuff together in little groups, keep bolts together with the parts as they come off.
I might utilize magnetic trays, my roll carts, the trunk of the car if it's long term, the shop floor if it's large like a trans or engine replacement.

I have been known to place large chunks of plywood on top of the trash cans as temporary bench and storage space......


But there is NO pattern for remembering to take the trash out to the curb. I don't care that it's supposed to be every Thursday, I just can't remember a damn thing 10 minutes after I wake up.

 
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Woah!!!!!!!! Some serious warpage there!