Hi, I discovered today a small leak on my coolant level sensor. I assumed a bad O-ring and stupidly I wanted to tight it down a bit further until tomorrow to get new sensor. Well surely another 1/16 of a turn and the plastic broke and I had to get home via public transport. Now I will get this part tomorrow (hopefully they have it in stock at VM Authaus in Vancouver / Burnaby ... a really great place to get reasonably prized parts the next day by the way .... and a really nice guy .... no I am not at all involved with this mechanics, its just a good place to get things fast). Now I thing when I changed the expansions tank a few months ago it is very likely, I might have tight the sensor a bit too much so that it slowly cracked and not the O-ring but an already broken plastic was the leaking problem in first place. My wrench did the rest then hehe. I know, next time I should inspect first before tighten it more. Is there a rule of thumb how to tight down these plastic sensors? How many (fraction of) turns after it is hand tight? As I have to use a 32mm socket it is quite easy to over torque it without even knowing ... Thanks Thomas |
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