I found a couple of drips of oil below the SH when taking it out of winter storage. The oil patch (about the size of a quarter) seems to have come from an oil pan bolt. I'd like to re-torque the oil pan. Can anyone tell me the oil pan bolt torque spec in Ft/Lbs or Nm?

 

Section 1-11 of the service manual, standard 8mm engine bolt: 17 ft/lb

 

Make sure you have an aluminum crush washer on there and your leak will magically disappear
RC

 

I don't think they are the 8mm bolts. The head is 8 mm but the bolts themselves are like 4-5. They list a spec for 4 or 5 flange bolts with 8mm head also.

 

Hmm, I didn't look that one through fully...

Regardless, it's in section 1-11...

 

Couple of things: 1) I scoured the torque-spec section (1-11) and found nothing about the oil pan bolt. 2) I checked the Lubrication system section and at the bottom of 4-6 the manual says, "Install the oil pan and cover stays, and tighten the twelve bolts in a crisscross pattern. . ." It says nothing about size, crush washers, nor torque value - kind of a useless manual in this case.

 

page 3-11

 

I think he was talking about the bolts holding the oil pan to the case, not the oil pan drain bolt....

I'm pretty sure the torque specs on page 1-11 apply to all fasteners not mentioned in the general information. If you look part way down, it mentions "torque specifications listed below are for important fasteners", meaning that the ones above apply to everything else.

The smallest bolt listed is a 5mm bolt... I'm not sure the length of the pan bolts, I was thinking of the clutch/stator cover ones...