Oil Plug Crush Washer Direction

The washer by the way is a strange beast.

Oil plug crush washer direction.

They re commonly found any time a threaded fastener has to seal in a liquid. And why should you re use an oil drain plug gasket. Tighten the plug the soft copper washer deforms to fill any gaps making a liquid tight seal. Discussion starter 1 jul 15 2007.

Some cars have crush washers some have a nice o ring built into the plug some have nothing. Jump to latest follow 1 6 of 6 posts. Which way does oil drain plug crush washer face. Don t believe me watch flat rate masters last video and correct me.

I ve been changing my own oil for over 20 years and i ve never replaced a crush washer and i ve never had a leak at the plug. Joined jan 20 2006 357 posts. Nonetheless i think changing the crush washer every time is pointless but so is changing oil as often as a lot of us do. I ve re used my crush washer a few times and it s finally developed a slow leak.

Oil drain plug crush washer orientation 05 05 2019 04 32 pm i m changing my oil for the first time and noticed the crush washers were oriented differently and the change before was supposedly done by a factory certified yamaha dealership. Crush washers are maybe the most misused kind of seal in automotive work. I just wipe it clean.