Valve Cover Bolt Torque 1999 2.7 ltr???

Hi all from deep in the Ozarks, somewhere in the woods,...
I'm getting ready to pull my valve cover, and replace the old leaky gasket. I have a Haynes Manual, but it dosen't give me the torque spec for the valve cover bolts. A lil help,......?

On a side note, I have over 260,000 miles on my lil mule, and I love her dearly!

 

I can't say for sure with the 2.7, but the 3.4 valve cover bolts are torqued to 13 ft-lb. That seems to be a fairly common torque value for valve covers, because they're such small bolts and all they need to do is compress the gasket slightly. Over-torquing them will definitely cause leakage.

 

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