Oil Change

["Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Falvio:

I've found the BMW specs to be too much.  They turn the aluminum crush
washers to mush!   I tighten just enough to compress the crush washer a
bit...maybe 1/8 to 1/4 turn.  Tighten and leave it, don't back it off after.
As long as you're sqashing the washer, you're sealing and holding the bolt
tightly.  I've been doing things this way for years and have never had a
problem.

If you do it this way, you can re-use the crush washer if you need to.   I
don't make a practice of this unless I'm on the road and there's no new
crush washers around.   If you tighten to factory, the washer is really
squashed.  It's difficult to remove from the bolt and it's pretty useless
for re-use.

For the filter, I put them on hand-tight plus about half a turn. It's
enough.   Again, once the gasket is compressed all around the circumference,
you're sealing and holding the filter tight.   That's all you need to do.

It's always more difficult to get them off than to put them on.

Let's not start an endless thread over this, OK?

- -TB

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