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Originally Posted by 10/10ths
....When you invest in the LN magnetic drain plug, it comes with instructions. And the instructions are on their web site.
Read the instructions when you buy a new product. Read the owner’s manual in your car. Engineers spent a lot of time and money and blood, sweat, and tears to engineer these things and then write up detailed instructions for their customers to make sure everything works as engineered.
But people are lazy and don’t want to take five minutes to READ.
People will drop $100,000 on a car, and then not take five minutes to read how to care for that car.
Forgive my rant, but I work in the automotive industry, my specialty is technical instruction.
I always ask folks, “If you bought a private jet, would you make sure you knew how to change the oil properly before you flew across the ocean?”
If you can’t take five minutes to read the owner’s manual, and make sure your car doesn’t dump out all its oil on a drive across Montana, then you shouldn’t buy the car.
Harsh? No. Reality? Hell yes.
RTFM.
I’m done. Thanks for your time. Return to your normal programming.
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Here's the problem: The owner's manual is useless to those who have an LN plug, because LN specs much lower torques.
So if someone buys a used Box that came with the LN plug, then changes the oil and torques, as you said, to spec in the owner's manual, they will most likely damage the plug. Likewise, if they took it to an indy or quick oil change place that may not necessarily know that LN specs a different torque. Even if they use a torque wrench, they probably would torque it to the spec that their computer tells them, which is derived from the manufacturer's specs, not aftermarket products.
So instead of just blaming the user, you would think LN would have just developed a plug that used similar torque specs as the OE plug.