I can't believe all this discussion over this o-ring. The o-ring gets seated into the bottle housing. Just lube the ring with some coolant and tighten the sensor until the hex bottoms on the top of the bottle. You will feel it. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Tabe Johnson Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 7:20 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Torque on coolant level sensor? If you want to get really fancy: A standard O-ring (which this is not) is normally compressed around 20%. So if you measure the thread pitch on the sensor and the thickness of the O-ring, you can figure out how much to tighten the sensor after it touches the O-ring in order to get 20% compression. I would definitely put some coolant or something on the O-ring to allow it to turn easily. tabe johnson / 87 westy |
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