Now: Fumoto Valve, Was: Amateur auto engineering

[Kneale Brownson]

That totally reliable system relies on a hard thread going into an aluminum
thread with a crush washer that should be replaced each time.  If you
overtighten once (or need an oil change midtrip and have to "pay" for it),
you're looking at a buggered up oil pan that might cost way more than $26
to fix or replace.   I got my first one because a PO had cross-threaded the
pan opening.

At 09:25 AM 1/3/2005 -0800, Richard J Lebens wrote:
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>$26 to replace a totally reliable simple system so you don't have to
>get a wrench?  Don't you need to dig up the filter wrench anyway?
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