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Appreciation post: the $12 oil filter wrench that finally taught me to stop overtightening
Back in 2009 I was doing an oil change on my old Civic in my dad's garage in Toledo and the drain plug was so tight from last time that I rounded it off. My dad came out, looked at it, and said "you're strong-arming everything, you gotta let the tool do the work." A few months later I bought a cheap torque wrench and realized I'd been cranking filters and plugs to like double the spec for years. Now I actually read the numbers on the box and my drain plugs come out clean. How do you all keep from overdoing it when you're working by feel?
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