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Thank you to everyone for all the advice, I very much appreciate it! Gnarly, where in the factory service manual did you find the 15 ft-lbs spec? Thank you for looking up the exact number! My mom and I searched through our copy last night and didn't find it, so I'm very curious where that data is hiding. I didn't see it in the maintenance or lubrication system chapters, nor section A service specs (though admittedly I could have missed it if it's in this section). Agreed, I would never let a fast oil change shop touch any of our Toyotas---I always let my RAV4 and 4Runner drain for a few hours, and I can only think of one local shop that'd let them drain as long as I do.I'm still curious why the torque specs are that much different for the truck than our newer Toyotas; it definitely seems reasonable that they'd be different, I just haven't thought of a satisfactory explanation of why yet.
Hey KauriJ...So you asked me where I found that torque number. Well, I found it VERY early this morning. I found it again this evening. The oversight on my part is that I was scanning for "drain plug" and the ONLY two words I found was under the section in the back of the manual on Automatic Transmission. At the moment I spotted it I did not realize I was in the Automatic Transmission section. So the 15 foot lbs is for the drain plug for the automatic transmission fluid pan – not the crankcase oil pan. BUT.. I believe 15 lbs is about what I torque my oil pan drain plug to. I will check next time with my torque wrench. Now… because I also could NOT find the torque spec in the FSM, which is really strange!! - and I was sure in the past I had found it, and obviously it was the automatic transmission drain plug spec, so I Googled for about 15 minutes before I could find any reference to the spec. I finally found it. It’s a nice huge list! https://2gf7je2dfcv61yrkoz3u61q1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-Oil-Drain-Plug-Application-Guide.pdfIt says 26 to 32 foot lbs. I don’t believe I torque my drain plug that tight, but I will check next time to see. That seems very high to me. But there have been torque specs in the manual that I do NOT torque to. That just my experience with alloy parts and steel bolts and nuts.Sorry for the confusion and misinformation! Gnarls.
Use the German torque spec............guten tight
26-32 ftlbs does seem high, even the 18ftlbs for the '93-'95yrs model years seems a bit high. I think I will stick to my well calibrated hand tight torque value for drain plugs.
For important parts like heads, oil pan, bearings, lug nuts, etc., I always use a torque wrench, but ever since snapping off timing cover bolt trying to get it to spec, when it comes to unimportant components, I just use hand gauge, the most a little loose or uneven tightness across the bolts will result in is a leak.
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