justin_o_guy2
Serious Thumper
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What happened?
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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If you see a leak at a bolt , you may have messed up the rubber seal on a washer, wouldn't tighten it. Wouldn't mess with any of it unless you have a good reason. When it's time to go in, id look closely at the threads on everything. If you get a new bolt, same size, same thread pitch, and it won't screw in as easy as the one that came out, you distorted the threads. That's not uncommon. I've seen a buncha nuts that didn't wanna go back on the bolt it came off of unless it's oriented the way it was.
Don't tighten things, other than head gaskets, with a particular torque goal. FEEL of the bolt. You can feel it stop. Use small tools for small bolts. Well, to be fair, if you're just too strong, naah, you'll pop the head off before you feel it, me, I can feel it.
They put torque specs in the book. Every bolt. Depending on size, thread type and pitch and what it's made of , but that is just what is possible, theoretically, before it explodes. The lower number is another engineering guess. It's a darn sight easier to snug it up if it leaks than mess it up because you'd feel like a failure if it leaks. Take a chance on a leak,, or a rattle, don't be sloppy, but don't be Andre the Giant. If you have to get a cheater pipe to get the oil drain plug out, that's too much..
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