"Elle" <honda.lioness@gmail.com> wrote in news:NuoTk.7100$Oq2.1339
@newsfe08.iad:

> "Tegger" <invalid@invalid.inv> wrote
>> You MUST raise the car. There is simply not enough room if
>> you leave it
>> on the ground. Plus the car __MUST__ be level when you
>> perform the
>> procedure, so simply hoisting one wheel won't do it.
>
> My experience on both these points has been different. But
> for the record, I am kinda slim and small (woman-size).



I'm a big hulking man, six foot two and 180 lbs.
No, kinda skinny, actually. My ribs are noticeable in photos.
I look at the pictures and ask my wife, "Am I really that skinny?" She
says yes.

Maybe /you/ can do all this with the car on the ground, but I've found
it just about impossible. Maybe it's easier on the Civic.


>
>> They do tell you that you need a new washer each time. But
>> my parts man
>> (ordinarily excellent and valuable) kept ordering me the
>> wrong part each
>> and every time I asked, so I gave up and just kept
>> re-using the original
>> ones. Both original washers are still on the car. Both
>> have been removed
>> and replaced each and every year for seventeen years.
>> Neither leaks.
>
> The smaller bolt's washer is identical to the oil pan
> washer.



I did /not/ know that. Neither does my parts guy, apparently. And he's
been with this dealership since 1986.

Next time I'm at the dealership I will ask him to look at both to see if
we can locate that same part number.



> The larger one is easily obtained from the dealer.


Not mine! The parts guy calls up the diagram, clicks on what /both/ of
us are certain is the washer for that bolt, and voila! Wrong part
arrives. Several times. Neither of us understands this.



> They should be changed for the same reason the oil pan gets
> a new washer at every change: To help prevent overtorquing
> due to a bad seal which then tends to strip threads.
>
> I know you know this. It's for the archives yada.
>


Yeah I do know this. And I do replace the oil pan washer with a new one
at every change.

But I must say, it is passing strange that neither tranny bolt has
stripped in seventeen years (that's 17 R&R's), and neither is leaking
after that same length of time.


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Tegger

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