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Thread: Another automotive mystery....

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    Default Another automotive mystery....

    Why is it that an oil pan bolt that's torqued to say...300 ft.lbs. (just kidding) and has a gasket between the bolt head and the pan, can leak, yet when you back that same bolt out to change the oil, andi it's just barely hanging there by about 1-1/2 threads, it appears that not a single drip of oil will get past the threads??? I'm always amazed about this phenomena everytime I change the oil.

    Mystified,

    Robert K
    1991 535i

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    hydrolock lol
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    for the same reason why the car will do something werid till it's in the shop....
    If it cannot be fixed by the dremel or ducktape.. get out the sledge...
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    I miss my e34

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    typo chuck
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    Quote Originally Posted by 632 Regal
    typo chuck
    chuck... upchuck....

    I think my new nickname should be barf... like in space balls


    If it cannot be fixed by the dremel or ducktape.. get out the sledge...
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    takes a big man to admit when he's wrong.

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