Another automotive mystery....

[Robert K]

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

[632 Regal]

hydrolock lol

[dacoyote]

for the same reason why the car will do something werid till it's in the shop....

[632 Regal]

typo chuck

[dacoyote]

typo chuck

chuck... upchuck....

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


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[632 Regal]

takes a big man to admit when he's wrong.

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