Patman
Staff member
How many people here use a torque wrench to tighten your drain plug when changing your oil? I ask this because someone on the Corvette Forum asked for the proper torque specs for the drain plug on an LT1 and I thought to myself "who needs a torque wrench for that?" I've always just tightened it by feel (tight enough to avoid leaks but not too tight to cause a problem) and that has worked for me for 33 years of changing oil. It seems like an unnecessary step to me, it's not something you can mess up unless you really tighten it way too much.