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Dear Taxi Driver, bignev! My wife and daughter arrived from Pakistan 2. of January. I was almost a nervous wreck on how to get them back into Norway again due to the corona, if I was not in trouble having them in Pakistan in the first place;) I am out of mental hospital now, thats a joke, but it has been extremely busy. I will come bak with a complete answer during the weekend, but I will give you a taste and that is that I am probably over from cheap oils to Valvoline Max Life 10W/40 for high mileage vehicles.

Hi there and thanks for welcoming me to the forum. My name is Kevin Hallam from Chesterfield Derbyshire and I just Googled PT forums and up you popped. This will be my third Cruiser over the last 15yrs on and off but my present one is my first diesel. I first encounted them on the Hire Fleet at Tampa airport 19yrs ago when they first came out and thought I was the Bees Knees driving down the Gulf Coast of Florida. That seems like a very very long time ago now. I am looking forward to recieving and possibly giving snippits of advice/experience in my time with this forum.

I didn't have much choice, the O ring was a C shape, not an O !!!

I decided to anneal it anyway, I have always done that for copper washers on oil lines etc and decided it would be a sensible option. I don't know why I thought 32.4Nm was going to be too high, I guess it was a worry about shearing it in the head because it would be a right pain in the a*se to try and get any thing out from there while the engine was in place. Once I cleaned the threads up on the bolt it went back in a lot easier than it was to get out! Its all back together and seems to be running OK but I will keep an eye on it once I have taken it for a proper run and everything is up to temperature properly.